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Diefenbunker Museum

Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum, is located in what once was the Canadian government’s secret underground bunker in case of nuclear war.

Built in 1959-1961, the Diefenbunker served as a military communications base and as the Central Emergency Government Headquarters, the place where the Prime Minister and hundreds of others would have taken refuge in time of war.

Decommissioned and gutted in 1994, the bunker was slated to be closed when a local group stepped in. Seeking to raise funds for a local library, the group ran tours of the empty bunker for the general public. These proved so popular that the Diefenbunker was incorporated as a museum in 1998 (it had been deemed a National Historic Site of Canada in 1994).

Since then staff and volunteers have been hard at work recreating significant parts of the bunker as they once looked, and providing guided tours and innovative programming for visitors. Each year some 25,000 people plumb the depths of the bunker and discover what the Cold War might have been.

Bunker tours, available year round, take visitors into the blast tunnel, the decontamination chambers, the CBC Radio studios, the Bank of Canada vault, the War Cabinet room and the Prime Minister’s private quarters.

This year (2008) the Diefenbunker is celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a full slate of programming, featuring Cold War movie nights, a youth writing contest and summer Spy Camps.

Come to our 10th Anniversary bash and fundraiser in June! For more details, see contact information below.





Location
: 3911 Carp Road, Carp, ON K0A 1L0
Phone:613-839-0007 or 1-800-409-1965
E-mail: info@diefenbunker.ca
Website:http://www.diefenbunker.ca

 
 
 


     
     
 
 
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