The ticket seller gave an audibly fed up sigh when I handed him a €20 to pay for my €6 ticket to the museum. “You don’t have six euros?” Sometimes, shopping in Malta with anything larger than a fiver you are made to feel like Richard Pryor in Brewster’s Millions as he tries to go shopping with his million dollar bill. Anyway, I was allowed to enter, pockets bulging with small change as I jangled my way inside.
The museum gives a chronological account of World War 2 from the Maltese vantage point. Malta took a pounding and suffered a great deal but held out defiantly throughout the course of the war, and this is celebrated in the museum. It’s not overly big, but has plenty of authentic materials taken from Allied and Axis soldiers as well as planes that crashed or were shot down over the island.
You will find the National War Museum at St Elmo’s fort in Valletta.
Open Mon-Sun 9am – 5pm
€6 adults; €4.50 students; €3 children
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I have just returned from a trip to Ireland Kate, and one (of the many) differences you notice is the fact that ATMs there dish out €50 notes, compared to the €10s and €20s you get from a Maltese cash machine. Then again, things tend to be a bit cheaper over here…
Good luck with the Maltese move; feel free to drop by with any questions you may have and I’ll do my best to find answers for you.
I’m in Ireland right now, moving to Malta next year, and I never manage to have small denominations. In the US, I was always the one with correct change, or small bills for everyone to divvy up at dinner, but in Europe, all the atms give €50 bills, and carrying around a bunch of €1 and €2 coins gets old really fast. I hate to admit it, but I really miss $1 bills…
But any establishment that charges €6 doesn’t have grounds to complain about exact change!