1940s Weekend at Newark Air Museum

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Newark Air Museum
Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 October 2021 | 10am - 4pm
Adults £9.50 | Over 65s £8.50 | Children £5 | Family ticket [2 adults & 3 children] £26

This weekend event will be a follow-up event from the various 1940s Weekend events hosted by the museum in recent years. The Autumn 1940s Weekend is being organised to commemorate various aspects of the 1940s at what is part of the former RAF Winthorpe airfield site that was a World War II Bomber Command training base. 

Permeant displays at the museum include the Dig For Victory Garden around the Anderson Shelter and the World War II ROC (Royal Observer Corps) that will be completed last year. All around the museum's extensive site, there will be a distinctive 1940s feel, with visiting displays / groups set out both under cover and outside. These displays typically include: vintage vehicles (cars and military vehicles; local history groups; variety of themed wartime trade stalls; and will feature regular performances during the weekend by singers performing 1940s era songs.

Visitors are encouraged to enter into the '1940s spirit' by attending in period costume. Such participants will be admitted at a discounted admission rate over the weekend. Opening times are 10am until 5pm each day (last admission at 4pm) and this event is open to the general public and normal museum admission rates apply: Adults £9.50 | Over 65s £8.50 | Children £5 | Family ticket [2 adults & 3 children] £26