The Veluwe has numerous monuments, each with their own story. They have been erected to keep alive the memory of certain people and events. The monuments determine the face of a region which originated many years ago.

War monuments

Museum of Deelen Air Force Base
This museum concentrates on the aerial war above the Netherlands. The collection includes: Wreckage of aircraft shot down over the Netherlands, weapons, navigation equipment and pilot clothing.

Military cemeterie Loenen
Many Dutch people who died in Germany during the war were buried in hostile soil. Most of these victims had not had a decent burial. In 1947 the Dutch government decided to transfer their mortal remains to Holland, to the Loenen cemetery. In 1948 the Netherlands War Graves Foundation started with the construction of this burial ground. Queen Wilhelmina officially opened it on October 18, 1948.

Military cemeterie Grebbeberg
The Grebbeberg military cemetery at Rhenen is the final resting-place of over 400 Dutch soldiers. They died in May 1940 during the battle for the southernmost part of the Grebbe Line. After the surrender, the Dutch and German victims were buried at the scene of the action. This made this burial ground on the Grebbeberg Holland's first war cemetery. After the war, the bodies of the German soldiers were reburied in Ysselsteyn in Limburg, at the cemetery for Germans killed in action. 

Museum The Hidden Village
In the neighbourhood of Vierhouten Jews, crashed allied pilots, British paratroopers, a Pole, a Russian and some German deserters were hiding in the forest, living in huts. Museum Het Verscholen Dorp shows a reconstruction of three such huts.

Radio Kootwijk

'De Kathedraal' (cathedral), the ‘Mastodont' (mastodon) or simply 'Gebouw A' (building A) are just a few of the unique nicknames given to the former Radio Kootwijk transmitting station. This monumental building is where the wireless broadcast connections with the Dutch Indies first reached the airwaves in 1928. Following the legendary words spoken by Queen Wilhelmina: ‘Hello, Bandoeng', the Dutch were able to speak to Indonesia directly.

Radio Kootwijk was a radio transmission station used for radio broadcastings to the Dutch colonies. It was opened in July 1923. After the Germans occupied The Netherlands they took control over Radio Kootwijk. Transmissions just went on, but the Germans used it for their own propaganda. Radio Kootwijk was also used as a stand-by transmission station for the Kriegsmarine in case of problems with the German Norddeich Radio (in such cases they used a receiving station at Muiderberg near Amsterdam).