The Cold War Museum

[ruxy 15]

2 hours ago, paulob1 said:

explain...

Black squiggle often associated with a  Balkenkreuz

[paulob1 11]

So we have our filming day tomorrow.  Big Narstie is coming to drive a few toys and then he is taking a zil away for a few weeks to have a play with it...will hopefully put the museum on the map a bit.  Will be a lot of fun too.  i have to show him how to drive a zil a kraz a 432 a ferret if he can get in it and a ural...maybe  I am not letting him drive the OT90 the MTLB the Saracen or any of the other toys...it will be on the TV in June or july...will let you know when.....Gave the mig a bit of a spruce up for the first time today, she need s a damn good clean, as do a lot of the toys..its coming...we will be open this year of that I am now sure, we have coffee and canteen arrangements coming along staff ready, tents and canopys ready, access nearly sorted and the place is nearly tidied...we are getting there...

[paulob1 11]

So its the 3/4th July..tickets go on sale on the 1st May.  you have to buy tickets from partyace.com they are 11 pounds each for an adult, free for kids under 17, but you still need to get a ticket...it helps me with the admin and management.  I currently have no idea how to run this so I am using every trick I can to manage it properly and efficiently...so tickets sold mean I can plan on numbers which helps me plan so much else..  So bear with me...I am hoping to have a few surprises by then but thats for the day...not now...its going to be fairly low key to start with but we will get better at it and get more organised.  We will have coffee and tea and cakes and biscuits and maybe some hot food, we will likely ask a burger bar to attend for hot food...i have no idea how many will come hence the ticket sales but I don't expect to get more than 200 on the first weekend...but my limit is going to be 1000...so we should be okay...i cannot see 1000 people coming for a very long time..maybe when we get our TU95 bear in...we will have a small shop selling some smaller memorabilia and stuff and a load more besides but this is the start we have had covid and now I have to try and recover financially and work wise so its going to be much less than planned but it going to open...

Edited April 2 by paulob1

[SirLanceUK 0]

Great news, 

[paulob1 11]

got our first of two camp bastion tents up these will be for simple indoor displays...no idea what we will display just yet as we have so much so maybe something historical chronology wise a few pictures soldiers in uniforms and such like...we also have a nice container cabin, we will use it for something needing desks and stuff...we are going to hopefully get a few more machines before opening day which is going to be the 11th July, or may slip into the week after just got a few things to tie up for this week and then we go firm...loads of volunteers helping but no one yet who has much mechanical skills...hoping that as we open and people hear about us more of the ex reme chaps around here will show up..Brad is massively capable at fixing almost every thing and will even tackle complex electrical faults but usually passes the manuals onto me to read them through and identify things to make sure we are on the right track...I hate vehicle electrics..but if you have time go check our the facebook page @theironcurtainmuseum

[paulob1 11]

and our DAF drops has been taken for a movie project...that is good income for the museum...we are slowly building a nice petty cash balance...

[paulob1 11]

i never knew it was going to be so difficult to pick an opening day...so its back to the 3/44.  Wife had booked a weekend away for the 11/12 July...its not easy but it has to be done...so opening day is now confirmed as the 3/4 july...

[ploughman 13]

Do you have a website?

And Whereabouts are you?

I may have missed it if you have said on some earlier post.

 

[paulob1 11]

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HI Bryan, yes we do its a bit convoluted but when we decided to start the museum we wanted to call it The cold war museum.  However I contacted the Cold war Museum in the US to chat to them and exchange ideas and immediately got a cease and desist order from their solicitors.  In America the cold war museum is a load of flags, and a couple of newly acquired Nike Missiles.. Yes you have to believe they have trade marked the name the Cold war museum...what a load of tosh, how can anyone think they can trade mark the phrase the COld war Museum...ridiculous that it was allowed.  it wouldn't be allowed to day but it was then. ...so I changed the name to the Iron Curtain museum....but the web site is still the Cold War Museum...the owner of the museum Francis Gary Powers, yes Gary Powers was his dad.  He offered his services as a speaker but to be honest I do not know him or have any knowledge of his knowledge either but anyway...that is the problem...so the web site is still the coldwar museum...we are about to update it but it will take me a bit of time to do that...so search for the www.thecoldwar museum.com and the facebook page is the @theironcurtainmuseum and we are in ALton hants...

the dat is fully committed now to the 3/4 July this year...book tickets from Monday via the partyace.com web site...entry is by ticket only

 

 

Edited April 30 by paulob1

[Mk3iain 13]

Paul, are you saying that "www.thecoldwar museum.com" is your website ?

I cant get it to work and Facebook is a no go for me and others. We do not all live in Facebook world 

Its too far for me so I'm looking forward to the website.

Iain

[SirLanceUK 0]

2 minutes ago, Mk3iain said:

Paul, are you saying that "www.thecoldwar museum.com" is your website ?

I cant get it to work and Facebook is a no go for me and others. We do not all live in Facebook world 

Its too far for me so I'm looking forward to the website.

Iain

HI Iain,

Try

https://www.thecoldwarmuseum.com/about

or

The Iron Curtain Museum. A History of Life during the Cold War

@theironcurtainmuseum  · History museum

on Face book

Lance

 

[Mk3iain 13]

6 minutes ago, SirLanceUK said:

HI Iain,

Try

https://www.thecoldwarmuseum.com/about

or

The Iron Curtain Museum. A History of Life during the Cold War

@theironcurtainmuseum  · History museum

on Face book

Lance

 

Thanks Lance, that works ok. The site is not complete and the home page is not up and running but now I can access the site.

I'm still not a Facebook zombie though  🙄

[paulob1 11]

the site is up and running but yes not complete and now we are looking at redoing it with the new name it likely wont change much until we do...but since I own thecoldwarmuseum.com i will be keeping it until I have enough time to bother to fight the trademark issue.

[paulob1 11]

I picked up a new museum display unit a Spartan, on loan to the museum from Lance Parsons.  thanks Lance, we need to pull the plugs and give them a clean running very rough...then check that everything else is running sweet...

[paulob1 11]

Okay the first tickets are on sale... 

https://partyace.com/events/iron-curtain-museum-3-4-july

11 pounds entry for adults, under 18's go free.

Military types we will do a discount ticket but cant organise that yet...

hope to see some of you...