Kern County Museum — Attraction in Namur

There's two main things museums here at Terra Nova. One is the museum and the second is an underground tour of the tunnels beneath the citadel.

The museum is mainly the history of Namur. Virtually all of the exhibition and description is in French only, although there is an audio guide that includes an English narrator. The breadth of the exhibits is incredible. There's an entire section covering geology, including the formation of the landmass through geologic timescales. Then there's several sections covering the period when modern Namur was part of various European great powers. The last sections are on modern Namur and the future of Namur.

My favourite parts of the museum were the fantastic documentary of the Siege of Namur and a scale model of medieval Namur along with narrations of various people who would've lived at the time.

I also did the underground tour. The English tour is at 2.30pm, so recommend booking in advance and doing the museum and tour in the afternoon. The tour is pretty entertaining and it's always nice visiting archaeological...

Terra Nova is the place where a few tourist visits start. These are, the visitor centre showing the history of Namur the little tourist train taking 20 minutes with an audio description of Citadelle highlights in French, Flemish and English. the visit to 495 meters of the 4 kms of underground galleries illustrated by animations and projections. There's also a self-service café and tourist shop. All 3 activities are well worth seeing. We went with an English visitor who was amazed by the rich and amazing history of Namur and the Citadelle. We did the English tour of the underground galleries with a really excellent guide that brought the past to life for us. Tickets can be booked on the internet or bought at the...

Very interesting place. The Sousterrains tour of the tunnels was very interesting. Our guide was worried about the standard of her English but she didn't need to be - she was great, and the audiovisual displays in the tunnels were very helpful. There is a very good multimedia museum about Namur (audioguide available, but understandable without, if you have some knowledge of military history, and O level French. There's also a lot of park to explore, and great views. Great value, and free parking. Lots of restoration and building work going on, so expect it to get...