Some original tourist facilities are planning to use Europeans’ fear of a new political crisis for tourist purposes. As AFP reports, the popular tourist country is opening a nuclear bunker for tourists to visit. The object belongs to the period of the Cold War and has never been used for its intended purpose, but under the current conditions it will become popular with tourists – the attraction’s creators are confident.
From Monday 13 February, the Regan Vest nuclear bunker in northern Denmark will operate as a museum, welcoming tourists to northern Denmark. According to Danish experts, the bunker was created after the Soviet Union tested its hydrogen bomb. It was built over 5 years (from 1963 to 1968), and the government recognized it as necessary after the escalation of tensions after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. At the same time, the bunker was not intended for the population in general, but for the highest levels of power, for the royal family and members of the Cabinet of Ministers.
Located almost 400 kilometers from Copenhagen and at a depth of 60 meters under a chalk hill, it was supposed to be the “last bastion” of democracy in Denmark, museum director Lars Christian Norbach solemnly told the agency. “Government survival in the event of a nuclear disaster was essential to national sovereignty. As long as there is a government, even hidden in a bunker, the Danish state will still exist,” the expert added.
The bunker was then decommissioned in 2003, and its location was declassified in 2012. And so the Danish experts plan to take the next step, making the bunker open to tourists “so that they have the opportunity to experience a real-time capsule of the Cold War era.”
Inside the bunker, tourists will be able to see a master bedroom designed for the monarch, a dining room, a government conference room, and 60s-style decor in a dimly lit living room. Everything is preserved in its original form. Visitors are offered a 1.5-hour excursion, during which they will walk through underground galleries for almost two kilometers. The creators of the museum admitted that they expect that interest in visiting the bunker will be fueled by the current political situation, including the fear of nuclear war.