Seventy-five years on, the full scale of Bletchley Park’s top secret impact on the planning and implementation of D-Day is to be revealed to visitors in a new immersive cinematic experience, D-Day: Interception, Intelligence, Invasion.
The exhibition will open in May, with previews planned in April.
Featuring a specially commissioned film projected on a 22m screen, the audio-visual experience will be held on site in the newly restored Teleprinter Building where hundreds of thousands of intercepted messages first arrived at Bletchley Park from secret listening posts across the UK, and Ultra intelligence was transmitted to Allied headquarters.
Iain Standen, CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust said: “This exhibition will allow our visitors to understand the vital importance of the ULTRA intelligence produced here, and the impact it had on one of the most important military operations of the twentieth-century.”
Bletchley Park is delighted to have BT, whose wartime history is closely intertwined with the Codebreaking site, as the exclusive and sole corporate partner of the restoration of Teleprinter Building and the exclusive and sole partner of the exhibition.
It was General Post Office (now BT) engineers who managed Bletchley Park’s secure communications network and delivered innovative information technology such as Colossus, the world’s first electronic digital computer.
2019 will also see the opening of a new display of items from the museum’s archive, showcasing rarely seen cartoons and sketches of people and places associated with Bletchley Park.
The eightieth anniversary of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) will be marked by a special display opening in summer 2019. Visitors can also enjoy Bletchley Park’s popular vintage 1940s weekends, Museums at Night events, as well as lectures, workshops and activities throughout the year.
> Image: Landing ships putting cargo ashore at Normandy during the first days of the operation, June
1944. Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
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