Arnhem Audio Tours

The Airborne Museum Hartenstein in Oosterbeek, about five kilometres west of Arnhem, is one of the finest military museums in the Netherlands. It occupies the Hotel Hartenstein, which served as British First Airborne Division headquarters during the battle. The museum has an impressive underground exhibition with authentic equipment, photographs, and personal testimonies that bring the events of September 1944 to life. A short walk away is the Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery.

The Nederlands Openluchtmuseum, located in the Hoge Veluwe area north of Arnhem, is one of Europe's largest open air museums. It assembles historic buildings relocated from across the Netherlands, including windmills, farmhouses, craftsmen's workshops, and an entire 1950s suburb, across a 44-hectare forested estate. The museum is excellent for families and gives an unusually tangible sense of how Dutch people lived across different eras.

Arnhem sits adjacent to the Veluwe, the largest forested national park in the Netherlands, and cycling through the heathland and sand dune landscapes is one of the region's great pleasures. The Hoge Veluwe National Park, which houses the Kroller-Muller Museum with its extraordinary Van Gogh collection, is about 15 kilometres from Arnhem. Free-to-use white bicycles are available inside the park. Sonsbeek Park within the city itself is an elegant landscaped park for shorter walks.

Arnhem has excellent rail connections as a major junction on the Amsterdam-Germany axis. Amsterdam is about an hour by train, and Arnhem's station has direct international services to Germany via the high-speed Intercity Direct route. The city centre is compact and walkable from the main station, and buses and cycling cover the wider area efficiently.