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Museum Mega Thread (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by FireTower@lemmy.world to c/forgottenweapons@lemmy.world
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Hey, this is going to become a list of firearms related museums across the world it'll will be linked in the side bar.

I haven't attended all, or even most, of these museums but the intention is to include museums that have a small arms collection. The museum may have a broader focus such as world history.

If there's any museums you know comment them and I'll add them below. This is and will likely always be an incomplete list.

If you don't know any museums but you don't see your country represented let me know and we'll see if we can't find one to add.

I don't speak every language so that means I might have a hard time finding the official sites for some museums, if you manage to find one I didn't let me know and I'll change it.

Africa

Egypt 🇪🇬

Ethiopia 🇪🇹

Kenya 🇰🇪

South Africa 🇿🇦

Tanzania 🇹🇿

Asia

China 🇨🇳

  • Military History Museum, Beijing

Japan 🇯🇵

Russia 🇷🇺

Singapore 🇸🇬

  • Army Museum, Singapore

South Korea 🇰🇷

Vietnam 🇻🇳

  • Military and War Museum, Ho Chi Minh

Europe

Austria 🇦🇹

Belgium 🇧🇪

  • Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels

Croatia 🇭🇷

  • Muzej Policije, Zagreb

Finland 🇫🇮

France 🇫🇷

Germany 🇩🇪

Ireland 🇮🇪

Italy 🇮🇹

  • Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, TN

Malta 🇲🇹

  • Malta Time-Gun Museum, Valletta

Netherlands 🇳🇱

Poland 🇵🇱

Romania 🇷🇴

Spain 🇪🇸

Sweden 🇸🇪

Ukraine 🇺🇦

UK 🇬🇧

North America

Canada 🇨🇦

Cuba 🇨🇺

Mexico 🇲🇽

US 🇺🇲

South America

Argentina 🇦🇷

Chile 🇨🇱

Paraguay 🇵🇾

Peru 🇵🇪

  • Museo del Ejército, Lima

Uruguay 🇺🇾

Oceania

Australia 🇦🇺

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[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The Neue Burg museum in Vienna has a pretty large weapons collection, all pre-1918.

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks! Added it to the list.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

Armémuseum, the Army Museum in Stockholm in Sweden does have a relatively large exhibit of guns. There is even a collection of war bounty cannons from Denmark on display outside.

Eskilstuna Stadsmuseum - Eskilstuna City Museum, has a collection of bayonets, swords, crossbows, spears, firearms, canons and machine guns with a special focus on weapons made in Eskilstuna.

I will also add Flygvapenmuseum in Linköping, it may not be handguns, but the Swedish Air Force museum is an excellent museum, showing off some truly unique artifacts like, the DC3 that was shot down by the Soviet Union over international waters in the Baltic while performing signals intelligence against them, several SAAB jet fighters, like Tunnan, Lansen, Draken, Viggen, Gripen and SK60, there are exhibits about Sweden and the cold war, flight simulators, futuristic architecture from 1968 used in the Swedish Air Force, and more. Highly recommended.

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks! I added the first two but for the sake of keeping the list short I'm going to try and limit the list to museums with a small arms collection. If I include every aviation, naval, or armor museum it'll be a lot more work. But I haven't been to Flygvapenmuseum, so if it does actually have at least a section dedicated to firearms or munitions I'll add it.

I did check out pictures of Flygvapenmuseum though and it looks very nice!

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

Perfectly understandable, thank you for your work with the list.

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