Today, only about 20 metres of the original 700 metre length is accessible but even so crouching your way through the dim, dank passage gives a tiny taste of how a full-on crossing may have felt.
The museum proper is inside one of the two houses which provided the entry/exit points. In addition to wartime memorabilia, visitors can view video footage of the siege and the tunnel’s construction and operation. Usually the video plays to a pin-drop silence interrupted only by intakes of breath as visitors watch shells shoot across the