Liberation Garden — Attraction in Leopoldsburg

On a rainy afternoon we had to change our plans and decided to visit the museum. Very impressed! Creative, interactive ways to tell the wartime stories through the voices of people who experienced WWII. Especially liked the bunker bombing experience, the VR spitfire raid and the poignant touches where the story inside led you to look outside in the garden - first the ditch where in the final day's Belgiums were executed and towards the commerative war grave gardens which are close to the museum. Too many good things to mention. If you are Belgium, Dutch, British, American, German, interested or not in WWII, pay a visit and enjoy the immersive experience. Took us, 2 adult, 3 children (teens) 2.5 hours and we all enjoyed it. Helpful and knowledgeable staff. Nice shop. Would be an added bonus (and it is a missed opportunity in my opinion) if there...

A thoughtfully curated and brilliantly presented museum of Leopoldsburg with a focus on the second world war. Both sides are represented and I thought balanced without demonisation or value judgements, just told as it was. We were provided a small reader set to one of four languages/child or adult to enjoy details of the many multimedia interviews and explanations on camera, subtitles were used too. The bomb shelter recreation worked well. Some of the exhibits had a button on a small screen or a hand sensitive area within a projected image to commence the multimedia and they all worked. The virtual reality airplane ride was the finale and highly enjoyable. A member of the staff showed us how the systems worked and carefully set up the VR experience for us. We had a really good morning including a chat at the end...

as an american traveler, i have visited many museums across europe and the liberation garden truly stands out alone. it’s a very unique in the setup and the telling of the history around leopoldsburg during ww2. the museum gives you insight from the german occupiers to the resistance fighters to the allied forces that helped liberate the area. there is an area in the museum that allows you to experience a first person view during a sortie in a spitfire (via a vr headset). the staff there were extremely nice and helpful. the audio guides were spot on and i do appreciate that it was in english. it was off season for me so parking was adequate and close by. if you love ww2 history as much as i do, or even if you don’t , i highly...