Airborne at the Bridge


There is no finer view of Arnhem's iconic John Frost bridge than from this small riverside museum with glass lookout tower. A six-minute film in the basement introduces the story of the Battle of Arnhem, and exhibits on the ground floor evoke the battle through the eyes of three soldiers – a Dutchman, an Englishman and a German – who fought.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby attractions

1. Sabelspoort

0.06 MILES

This medieval city gate dating from 1357 is the only one of four from the Middle Ages to survive. The rest were destroyed, along with the city walls, in…

2. John Frostbrug

0.15 MILES

The modern and busy replacement for the infamous 'bridge too far' may not look too dramatic, but its symbolic value is immense. This would have been the…

3. Eusebiuskerk

0.19 MILES

Awe-inspiring and gigantic, this late-Gothic hulk of a church is well worth a mooch, if only to ride the lift up its 73m-tall spire to gawp at Europe's…

4. Nederlands Openluchtmuseum

2.31 MILES

The village-sized open-air museum, 7km north of the train station, showcases a nationwide collection of buildings and artefacts, with everything from…

5. Oosterbeek War Cemetery

3 MILES

Row upon row of white gravestones of 1691 Allied troops, mostly British, troops killed during Operation Market Garden in September 1944 are buried in this…

6. Airborne Museum Hartenstein

3.36 MILES

Inside a 19th-century, primrose-yellow mansion used by both the British and the Germans as HQ during Operation Market Garden, this much-visited museum…

7. Honigcomplex

8.96 MILES

No address reflects the city's youthful zest more than this soup factory-turned-entrepreneurial hub, 1.5km west of Grote Markt by the river. Until 2022…

8. Nationaal Fietsmuseum Velorama

9 MILES

Down by the riverfront is this museum with more than 250 bicycles: everything from 19th-century wooden contraptions and hand-propelled bikes to an entire…

  • placement: superzone
  • path: Destinations/POIs/superzone
  • possible size: [970, 250], [970, 90], [728, 90], [1, 1],
  • targeting:
    {
      "url": "the-netherlands/arnhem/attractions/airborne-at-the-bridge/a/poi-sig/1600858/1315724",
      "position": "superzone"
    }