点评:There are now quite a few museums at former WW2 airfields across East Anglia. Most are well worth a visit, but this one is exceptionally professionally set out and displayed.
It also includes an impressive range of artefacts - everything from the uniforms of those who served at Bottisham and fragments of crashed aircraft from the base through documentary records of POWs to a replica P-51D in its own hangar. All of this is manned by enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff who are happy to talk about Bottisham's history.
Other reviewers talk about it being small. It's obviously not comparable in any way to the IWM at Duxford, for example, but I wouldn't over-emphasis it being small - there are multiple buildings, all packed with displays. Allow a good couple of hours if you want to have any chance of taking it all in.
And don't miss the Flying Tractor Café; it's fantastic value, and also (at least on the day of my visit) offered the most friendly welcome of any café I can remember visiting (and given that I take my elderly parents out for a drive and a café stop every week - this being one such - you can trust me when I say that I'm a connoisseur!). Not only that, but it has its own little library, so you can have a read while you eat.
I loved this place - it's a real gem, and certainly not as well known as it deserves to be.
翻译:现在,东英吉利各地的二战前机场都建有不少博物馆。大多数都值得一游,但这个博物馆的布置和展示非常专业。
它还包括一系列令人印象深刻的文物——从在波蒂沙姆服役人员的制服、基地坠毁飞机的碎片到战俘的文献记录,再到机库中的 P-51D 复制品。所有这些都是由热情而博学的工作人员管理的,他们很乐意谈论波蒂沙姆的历史。
其他评论者说它很小。它显然无法与杜克斯福德的 IWM 相提并论,但我不会过分强调它的小——那里有多栋建筑,都挤满了展品。如果你想有机会把一切都看完,那就留出几个小时的时间吧。
不要错过飞行拖拉机咖啡馆;物超所值,而且(至少在我光临的那天)它比我记忆中去过的所有咖啡馆都更热情(考虑到我每周都会带年迈的父母出去兜风,然后去咖啡馆,这家就是其中之一,你可以相信我,我是个鉴赏家!)。不仅如此,它还有自己的小图书馆,所以你可以边吃饭边看书。
我喜欢这个地方——它是一颗真正的宝石,当然没有它应有的那么出名。