Liverpool: Western Approaches WWII Underground Bunker Museum Ticket

Step into a top-secret bunker
beneath Liverpool

Western Approaches Headquarters was a top-secret bunker that played a vital role in the war effort during World War II. Enter at any time during opening hours on your selected date and explore at your own pace the maze of rooms where more than 300 people worked in secret during the war.

Learn about wartime operations in hidden rooms

Find out how the bunker's operations protected British tactics in the Western Approaches. See documents and tools used to track enemy convoys and pass information to the British government, and discover one of only two surviving wartime telephones directly connected to the War Cabinet in London.

Tour the operations room that ran day and night

Visit the operations room where commanders and personnel from the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) worked day and night. Learn how they monitored convoy routes and vital sea lanes, and how they pinpointed enemy positions on the giant map wall.

Walk through a wartime Liverpool street

Explore a recreated war-torn street with shops, a pub and even an unexploded bomb, and get a sense of what life was like for civilians during the war.