{"id":2320,"date":"2015-08-23T14:24:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2015-08-23T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T14:24:49","slug":"d-day-museum-portsmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2320","title":{"rendered":"D-Day Museum, Portsmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/D-Day_8751.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/D-Day_8751.jpg\" alt=\"DUKW in vehicle hall\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/D-Day_8751.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/D-Day_8751-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> The D-Day Museum is housed in a modern building near the Southsea Castle on the sea-front.<br \/>\nA circular hall has a modern D-Day Tapestry displayed around its circumference, and an auditorium for showing a short 15-minute film in the centre. On the other side of the museum, a winding series of galleries display materials on the build-up to D-Day and the invasion itself. A final pair of halls show vehicles used in the invasion &#8211; a glider, jeep, tank, tank landing craft and a DUKW.<br \/>\nIt is an interesting museum and worth a visit if you are in the area or if you have a connection with the invasion.<br \/>\nAdmission charges apply.<br \/>\nA car park (chargeable) is next to the museum, or you can park along the sea front (chargeable).<br \/>\nThe Southsea Castle is about 100 yards away &#8211; in fact the D-Day Museum is within the outer defences of the castle.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2334\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/D-Day_8752.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/D-Day_8752-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Amphibious tank\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2334\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amphibious tank<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The D-Day Museum is housed in a modern building near the Southsea Castle on the sea-front. A circular hall has a modern D-Day Tapestry displayed around its circumference, and an auditorium for showing a short 15-minute film in the centre. On the other side of the museum, a winding series of galleries display materials on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;D-Day Museum, Portsmouth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}