Museum of Coastal Defense, Fire Control Tower

The Museum of Coastal Defense in Hel was set up by the "Companions of Hel" society in structures once in the past built by the German "Schleswig-Holstein" 406 mm battery: the B2 weapon emplacement and the range-discoverer tower. The Museum was opened to guests on first May 2006. The point of the exhibition hall is to demonstrate the military history of Hel and the Polish Navy. Various topical presentations demonstrate the chivalry of the protection of Hel in 1939 and the improvement of the Polish Navy through history.

The improvement of maritime weapons and interchanges in the course of the most recent fifty years has appeared in detail. The exhibition hall is committed to the memory of Zbigniew Przybyszewski - the officer of the peninsular battery named after H. Laskowski. Przybyszewski was the saint of the 32 days of the safeguard of Hel in the pre-winter of 1939. Subsequent to surrendering, he was a POW in numerous camps and flags. After the war, he came back to Poland. He remade the Polish Navy. In 1947, he was elevated to the rank of lieutenant authority, and in 1949 was selected Chief of Artillery in the Polish Naval High Command.