Through thousands of items, the story of World War II is told. The stories range from special personal local stories through general war stories about specific items to fun stories about, how the museum came to get specific items.

The collection was gathered together by Erik Zwiggelaar. His collecting passion began sometime in the 1980s. Behind his grandparents' house in Erica where in the war an American B17 bomber had crashed and here many Sundays were spent searching for these remains. First by eye, later with a metal detector. In the museum there is a section with all kinds of soil finds where the parts of this American bomber can be seen.