# Freedom Museum

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{{Short description|Museum in Groesbeek, Netherlands}}
upright=1.35|thumb|Freedom Museum, Groesbeek
upright=1.35|thumb|the old National Liberation Museum, Groesbeek
The '''Freedom Museum''' (Dutch: ''Vrijheidsmuseum'') is a Dutch [museum](/source/museum) themed around the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of [World War II](/source/World_War_II), and is located in Groesbeek, close to the German border. Until September 2019 the museum was known as the ''National Liberation Museum 1944-1945''.<ref>[https://freedommuseum.com/activities/news/liberation-museum-becomes-freedom-museum Liberation Museum becomes Freedom Museum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115140000/https://freedommuseum.com/activities/news/liberation-museum-becomes-freedom-museum |date=2019-11-15 }}, https://freedommuseum.com, 9 July 2019</ref>

The museum's structural shape resembles an inflated parachute, in remembrance of the events around Groesbeek during the end of World War II, like the 1945 [Rhineland Offensive](/source/Rhineland_Offensive) (consisting of [Operation Veritable](/source/Operation_Veritable), [Operation Grenade](/source/Operation_Grenade), [Operation Blockbuster](/source/Operation_Blockbuster), [Operation Plunder](/source/Operation_Plunder) and [Operation Varsity](/source/Operation_Varsity))<ref>Rosendaal, J. (2014), ''De Bevrijding in Beeld. Van Neerpelt tot Wesel, 1944-1945'', Nijmegen, Vantilt, p.6., ISBN 9789081450003.</ref> and the September 1944 [airdropping](/source/Airdrop) of thousands of allied paratroopers on the fields around Groesbeek during [Operation Market Garden](/source/Operation_Market_Garden). The museum further aims to provide a grander-scale image of the Dutch liberation of German occupancy in general. 

== Notes and references ==
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== External links ==
* {{official|https://freedommuseum.com}}

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Category:World War II museums in the Netherlands
Category:World War II museums
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