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WHAT THERE IS TO DO AND SEE
The main Block-B museum tells the complete Bletchley Park story, covering the complex process of interception, decryption, translation, interpretation and analysis, essential in producing the vital intelligence. Exhibits include:

• The famous Abwehr Enigma machine, back on display after its dramatic theft in 2000, the Lorenz, an even more complex cipher machine than Enigma, the fully-operational Bombe Re-build now complete after 13 years work and examples of other mechanical cipher systems used during and after the war.
• World War Two Aviation display – one man’s tribute.
• Home Front exhibition showing rationing, evacuation, the Blitz and war-time washday.
• A display of toys and playthings.
• Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society, with its unique call sign GB2BP.
• The Oxf. & Bucks L.I. at Pegasus Bridge display traces the capture of Pegasus Bridge on D-Day.
• The 65th Nachrichten Abteilung - a German Signals Group, depicting a receiving and transmitting station with many items of original equipment.

OTHER EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS
Please always check before travelling (call 01908 640 404) as some exhibitions are not always available.

• The Churchill Collection – a unique collection of memorabilia and a tribute to the man who had significant links with Bletchley Park and famously described its workers as “The geese that laid the golden eggs - but never cackled”. (Closed Thursdays.)
• The Toys and Memorabilia Collection – a fascinating assortment of playthings and domestic artefacts related to everyday life in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s (open weekends only). Part of the collection is also available to see in Block B.
• The Projected Picture Trust – an exhibition of vintage cinematography. The 1940s Enigma cinema screens wartime showreels. (Open weekends only but a per man ent and interactive display is planned for later in the year.)
  New for 2008.
• The National Museum of Computing the museum traces the development of the computer from the Colossus Rebuild to the modern computers of today. Here you will be able to revisit the computer games of the past with its interactive display.
• Hut 1 and the Diplomatic Wireless Service – an exhibition of radio and communications 1930s – 1970s. (weekends only).
• The Bletchley Park sub-post office, originally believed to have been an undercover mailroom during the war, with the secret address of PO Box 111 Bletchley.
• The Bletchley Park Garage - a unique collection of vintage vehicles, including two 1930's Austins featured in the film The Eagle Has Landed and a Talbot and 1938 ambulance used in the film, Enigma.
• The Maritime Display by Leighton Buzzard Model boat Club, with naval and commercial vessels.
• The Model Railway exhibition – with static and live displays (weekends only).
• Hut 8 – wartime Naval Intelligence Hut and Alan Turing’s workplace, now home to a variety of exhibitions including Women at War, Pigeons at War and the astonishing HMS Petard story.
  New for 2008.
• Hut 12 – Soon to house ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’, an exhibition detailing the wartime work of Ian Fleming with Bletchley Park. Opens July 2008.
• The Mansion – a beautiful and atmospheric Victorian mansion, with many original features. Open to visitors, subject to conferences and weddings.
• Bletchley Park is situated in a beautiful parkland setting, with a lake and wildlife.

FACILITIES

• The Galley Restaurant in Hut 4
• Children’s Playground
• The Gift Shop sells a unique range of books, DVDs and CDs, gifts and toys.

ACCESS
Bletchley Park is easily accessible by car from the A5 and J13 and J14 of the M1. On-site parking is £3 per car. Bletchley Station, which has direct services to London Euston and Birmingham New Street, is a five-minute walk.

PRICES
A newly launched annual season ticket allows free and unlimited visits to the Park for up to 12 months following the first visit:

• Adult season ticket £10
• Family annual season ticket £22.50 (two adults and two children aged 12 to 16).
• Concessions annual season ticket £8 (over 60s and students with valid ID card)
• Child annual season ticket £6 (children aged 12 to 16)
• Children under 12 admitted free of charge.
• Tickets include a guided tour (subject to availability) and/or the use of an audio guide.

OPENING TIMES
Bletchley Park is open every day in 2007 except Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day:

• 1 November to 31 March: weekdays, weekends and Bank Holidays 10.30am - 4.00pm.
• 1 April to 31 October: weekdays 9.30am - 5.00pm, weekends and Bank Holidays 10.30am - 5.00pm.