ITT: 10/10 weapons museums

>>33914521
I don't know what remains, but the armor display at Aberdeen was pretty sick a while back.

Canadian War Museum has some great unique stuff if you're into WWII Allies/NATO equipment.

>>33914521
Bovington tank museum, Dorset, UK.

Small arms museum, School of Infantry, Warminster, UK.

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>>33914521
latrun has lots of crazy shit the israelis captured from the Arabs

like this modified IS-3 self-propelled gun thing

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Is there a better warbird museum than the ohio airforce museum?

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>>33914888
Evergreen Aviation Museum is pretty good.

>>33914521
Latrum was a good choice there annon,

For tank museums here's my list
1. Bovington - UK
2. Kubinka - Russia
3. Samur - France
4. Munster - Germany
5. Thun - Switzerland

In the US... Aberdeen use to be a mecca, until they moved everything to Ft. Benning GA, Same could be said about Patton museum in ft. Knox. All the tanks are now in warehouses and sheds waiting restoration for a indoor display of some type that is being built.

>>33914852
>IS3
that was a t34/85 bro. modified by the Egyptians and captured in the 6 day war from what I remember

>>33914521
I've heard many of their vehicles were painted in fantasy colors. I've seen tanks painted in a thick light blue paint from the treads to the antenna. Have they stopped doing that ?

>>33915167
[leaks of fuel and hydraulic fluid intensifie]

>>33914888
Nope

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>>33915348
>Thun
While it is free and has two unique prototypes (Pz 58 and Flab Pz 68)
I would recommend Full-Reuenthal more. Burgdorf is also nice, but i haven't been there yet

>>33915167
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>>33914521
If you like Allied WW2 aircraft and happen to be in Ontario, the Warplane heritage museum is top tier, It houses Vera , 1 of 2 lancasters that are still flyable.

>>33914521
The Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio is the best museum I have ever been to.

The Marine Corps Museum is better presented but the Air Force one has an absolutely overwhelming presentation though.

The West Point one has some great pieces as well such as Hitler's gun and Goering's baton.

The Indian War Museum in Indianapolis is great as well, plus the building it is in is awesome.

The Dulles Air Museum is basically the Air Force Museum lite.

The Fort Knox museum wasn't all that great unless you like Patton in which case it is fantastic.

Smithsonian was pretty meh except for some cool uniforms.

Museum of Flight in Seattle has some really good stuff but is basically the lite lite version of the Air Force Museum. Big highlight for me when I visited was seeing AWACS planes taking off from the field next door.

Evergreen Aviation Museum is basically the same but has the Spruce Goose which is fuckhueg big.

Fort Lewis near Tacoma in Washington is strangely the best land museum I went to, everything else seemed like it had been stripped for the upcoming Army Museum. Dayum shame.

Any navy one is great. My favorites are the Nautilus, the Little Rock in Buffalo and the Massachusetts in Fall River. The New Jersey and Olympia in Philly were great as well, the Olympia was fantastic actually.

>>33917574
>Indian War Museum
Indiana*

>>33917574
>>33917578
The Indiana War Memorial is modeled on the Mausoleum of Halicanarsiss.

The vehicles are weak but the array of personal equipment is pretty top tier. The shrine at the top is also nothing short of awe inspiring.

A middling museum overall but one with a VERY long history is the Barcelona military museum. The site was an old Roman fort and was rebuilt several times to its current state as an Imperial Spanish fort repurposed to hold coastal artillery and a garrison for Nationalist Spain. Personal equipment including Samurai armor, Roman artifacts from that very site, a few colonial Greek artifacts, and equipment from nigh every European war since the Punic Wars.

Though not military, the Barcelona Maritime Museum has a breddy gud setup on the Battle of Lepanto.

The German Haus der Geschichte in Bonn is more civilian than military but still an amazing Cold War history museum.

The Deutsches Museum in Munich is astonishing as far as a science and technology museum with lots of cool Cold War prototype aircraft, tanks, engines, aircraft, and missiles from the WWI-WWII era. Worth it on a /k/ level but also a really great science and technology museum in general.

Dayton, OH is still the holy grail for aerospace museums though.

>>33914521
Cantigny in IL is a great memorial/cemetary/tank museum. Has quite a few armored vehicles (mainly US) and inside the main building they have huge exhibits of all US uniforms since the founding of the nation and history and other exhibits.

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Sziklakórház/Hospital-in-the-rock, Budapest, Hungary. WW2 underground military hospital complex, now a museum.

VERY grim, but also very informative.

>>33914521
Cambodia only has one war museum, in Siem Reap, and it's brilliant. Every one of the few dozen vehicles and artillery pieces in there was taken out by a mine or similar, and the tour guides are all veterans. Plus not many other museums let you handle recoilless rifles or see bits of human bone sticking out of the side of a tank.

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>double spinesaw

>surgical saw for finger joints

>rib scissors

Actual WW2 surgical gear.

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>I've got good news Corporal. You're recovering nicely and you'll be back to the front in no time.

>Fuck.

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>>33917507
True but thun is restoring their King tiger to full operational status though, and it's cool to see it in parts as it's almost a once in a lifetime chance to see a King tiger in that state

>>33914521
Latrun had a fuckoad of trophies of rare soviet stuff before they became widely available and so they were able to trade them for a lot of rare western stuff so their collection is truly magnificent.

>>33914521
the War Memorial Museum in Seoul, SK is 10/10. They've got shit going back to the stone age as well as tons of decomiss'd modern equipment.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubinka_Tank_Museum

Münster Panzer Museum is the fucking tits

Not 10/10 but the museum I work in has some cool stuff

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>>33919201
Shite, forgot pic. Not sure what this is

>>33919225
Chauchat missing it's magazine?

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>>33919264
Yep looks like it. Its in a Michigan Polar Bear Expedition exhibit, heres some artillery artwork

>>33918426
It is located in Full, it was gifted to the museum a long time ago

The two museums I went to were pretty good though not 10/10. The museum of flight has some pretty cool WW2 stuff and some Korean War fighters (Saber, Mig 15, and an F9F, I think.) The other one being the museum on Joint Base Lewis-McCord, they have a lot of armor there, including a Sheridan. They also have the head from the Sadaam Hussein statue.

>>33914521
National Museum of the US Air Force is 11/10.

Actual copies of almost every single aircraft and missile the US has ever built and their refurbishing and preservation work is without peer. You'd never know that every single thing inside their B-2 was broken during stress testing.

>>33914779
aberdeen museum has been shut down because of BRAC. most of the pieces were sent to the museum of ordnance in Ft. Lee, and are not currently available for public viewing. other parts of aberdeen's collection were sent to the museum of Cavalry and Armor at ft. benning.

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>>33915348
>tfw been to all of those except kubinka
>only missed kubinka because forgot to into visa

The National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredricksburg, TX is really great. A huge complex dedicated to the pacific theater of WW2, its also got a building dedicated to Admiral Nimitz, and reenactments every month or two with a working flamethrower. 11/10, would recommend.

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anyone going to patriot park?
heard that shooting range gonna have as val

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>>33915348
Fort Nelson is also good. massive amount of artillery, including a railway gun

pic related.

also have a portion of project babylon, the iraqi supergun

>>33920042
Terrible shame. Even before that they all just sat out in a field painted grey. Compare to Bovington where vehicles are restored and displayed really well. You'd think the US would have enough money to put some towards preserving their historical vehicles, especially as many are so rare.

>>33914888
>ohio airforce museum

>>33921926
it really is. there just isn't that big of a museum culture in the US for tanks. it's all naval and aviation.

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>>33920198

I've been there, pretty interesting but still under construction mostly. Can't wait to visit it once it's finally completed. Pic related, you could go inside of it.

>>33915167
Wright Patt has an SR71 AND an A12

>>33918207
Pics.

CFB Borden has a nice collection of Shermans, one of the 3 remaining Hetzers in the world, a Leopard 1, a curation of American WW2/Pre War light tanks, without even looking at their indoors museum.

>>33918265
Lol.

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Dayton airforce museum

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Not many of you have seen one of these beauties up close have you? 1 of 2 fully built Comanche's still left standing. And that's Super 68 in the background too.

>>33914779
Camp Borden in Canada has an interesting collection or tanks on display including a complete Westwind, panther , Hetzer, matilda, T 34, several Rams, Stuarts, Shermans and a centurion ARV. Im sure i'm missing some. They also have a pretty good small arms collection and a WWi renault tank indoors.

Not quite a 10/10, but the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry has one of 4 surviving U-Boats (U-505) with the only one in America. They also have a pretty interesting aerospace area and a metric fuckton of ancient-classical ship models.

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Ohio is amazing, but this is twenty minutes down the road and always makes me feel super comfy about my grandparents commitment to burn humanity right off the face of the earth if the commies tried anything.

Anyone ever been to the Imperial War Museum in London? Probably one of the only things I want to see in London. They got lots of cool shit from the World Wars and everything else Britain has been involved in ever since.

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Hey guys i live in Georgia any nearby(florida, Bama, or the carolinas) museums u can recommend? Ive been to a ton as a kid but i can't remember the actual names of them and would like to revisit them as an adult now.

Only ones i can remember are patriots point in South Carolina and Museum of Aviation on Robins AFB

there was one my grandfather brought me to in florida i think that i remember having like a mockup of a flight deck from a carrier and a bunch of carrier planes on it. If you guys could help me figure out the name of this one that would be greatly appreciated

>>33917512
It's a shame they moved the Blackbird to the other building, because it was quite a sight to see an aircraft as large as the SR-71 completely dwarfed by the Hercules.

>>33915348
Kubinka is top notch, they have some major experimental German shit there. But make sure you speak Russian, Americans aren't the most favorite people in Russia.

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>>33922922
That looks incredibly well lit compared to when I went. Do they have a pop roof or skylights of some kind? When I went in may last year they were using these ceiling lights that were barely worthwhile.

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>>33922881
They have one of only 2 surviving Stuka dive bombers there as well. Saw it a few years ago, pretty cool.

>>33923091
The National Naval Aviation Museum on Pensacola NAS is really, really good and he USS Alabama in Mobile is cool (there's also a sub on-site).

The NNAM has a bit that looks like a carrier flight deck, so that might be what you are thinking of.

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>>33914521
If you're ever in St. Petersburg (The #1 city to visit in Russia) go here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Historical_Museum_of_Artillery,_Engineers_and_Signal_Corps

Museum of the Manx Regiment has some pretty great stuff. Apparently it has the first shells fired by the British Army during the Second World War, albeit by the Manx Regiment at an RAF plane. It's also got a load of random bits of crashed plane and various guns to look at. Oh, and a katana stolen from the Japs.

>this thread
>no pima air and space

bruhhhhhh

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>>33920064

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Australian War Memorial in Canberra has some really good stuff

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>>33923798
oh yeah ive been to the USS Alabama and the USS Wisconsin in Virginia

and thanks! it was the Naval Aviation Museum.

Pearl Harbor needs to count - there's a good aircraft museum there plus the motherfucking Missouri and all the other ships there.
it's a goddamn experience.

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>>33921926
Basically this >>33922175

In the US the Army's idea of a "restoration" is
>Drain all fluids
>Weld up hatches
>Paint the tanks poorly, like use Pink, and orange... I fucking shit you not
>place outside and forget about it for 30+ years
>repeat every 40+ years

Meanwhile in Europe the fuckers are getting all their shit in running condition

seconded

Planes of Fame and Yanks Air Museum, both at Chino Airport near Los Angeles, are great. PoF has a bunch of really rare stuff from around the world, including several sole survivors. Yanks has pretty much the entire history of American military aviation under one roof, including a lot of obscure stuff (early jets in particular). Both also have public restoration facilities where you can get up close to the projects.

For a different kind of /k/, I can't recommend the Doge's Palace enough to anybody who finds themselves in Venice. They have an absolutely spectacular collection of arms and armor which includes a lot of interesting 18th and early 19th century firearms.

>>33923738
>>33922881
ANY CHICAGO FAGETS WANNA CHECK OUT THE MOSI ON MEMORIAL WEEKEND? AND THEN GO GET SOME BEERS AFTER?

>>33924007
there just isn't enough pomp, tradition, and actual history behind the USA land forces. it's all been relatively lackluster. compared to the USA naval fuckstompery, or their absolute dominance in aviation theory and technology.

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Marine Corps Museum has some pretty cool displays, really want to check out the Ohio Air Force one.
Canadian War Museum is pretty cool, they have a lot of WW2 and Cold War equipment. Their Vehicle Gallery is 10/10

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>>33924399
I WENT THERE HUNGOVER AS FUCK. it was awesome. there was a biplane flying around too because of some anniversary of ww1 flight

>filled half a passport traveling the world and visiting BASED museums
>feels good man

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>>33923838
Agreed. These guys don't know what they're missing.

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>>33918086
Going to second this, namely out of self interest since I used to be a volunteer there for a few years. Bit of a smaller operation but its a very nice place and most of the staff are vets.

>>33924399
>Canadian War Museum
Doesn't one of Trudeau's goonies want to shut this place down?

I went to the National Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach a while ago and it was pretty cool.

>>33923798
An hour or so East from that is the Air Force Ordnance Museum.

They have a MOAB(all the reason you should need to go), a Spooky, a Spectre, and a bunch of other assorted aircraft outside, plus a hall of guns inside and all the various munitions the Air Force has used or considered using at one point or another inside.

>>33914852
jfc
Is that like, 110mm?

>>33925212
probably 122, it being artillery after all

>>33915348
This.

Forbes Field Air Museum is pretty badass.

>>33923838
I hear you dawg, not many air museums have A-10's training overhead.
The boneyard is pretty fuckin cool too

>>33918060
Ogden has a surprisingly-impressive air museum.

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>>33914521
I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but Les Invalides in Paris has a pretty amazing collection with Napoleon's tomb as a neat extra.

Plus, I challenge anyone to find a better looking military museum.

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It's pretty region specific, and not the biggest in the US by any definition, but I can't think of anywhere else but the Military Museum of Southern New England where you can get up close to pic related.

>>33924399
Which USMC museum? Quantico?

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>>33922609

Super 68 from Black Hawk Down?

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I want to see Maus badly, but unfortunately you need to go to Russia to see it.

But I been in Parola Tank Museum, they have pretty unique tanks there.

>>33914888
Pima runs a close second.

>>33914888
Aka Wright Patterson AFB, USAF museum.

The best I've seen. And I've toured the AF graveyard in AZ.

>>33927443
>but unfortunately you need to go to Russia to see it
This is not particularly difficult task, and exchange rates are good nowadays

>>33917574
Isn't udvar hazy the second have of the air and space museum.

>Tfw I have pics of me touching the OV-101 Enterprise before they built the hanger for it.

>tfw I've molested a Shuttle

>>33918265
>*shoots self in the other foot*

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>>33926195
True dat. And they have huge archives, so their temporary exhibitions are usually very good.

The Emperi museum in Salons is awesome if you like lace war, napoleonic uniforms and ww1 gear.

>>33927428

Super 68 is the helicopter delivering the CSAR team to the Super 61 crash site shortly after it was shot down.

She was hit by an RPG that hit on the left side during the insertion but the helicopter returned to base, despite the damage.

>>33926338
live in CT glad to see they painted it

Friendly reminder that Dayton, Ohio has one of the highest murder rates in the whole country. If you plan on visiting the Air Force Museum make sure you stay in an area closer to the museum than the city. Be smart, stay alive.

>>33922337
This so much. The AF museum at Wright Patterson is amazing.

The Royal Armouries in Leeds in the UK, their collection is incredible

>>33918485

Ooh, do they have one of those Hwatchas?

>>33914521
I went here this summer. Pretty good collection of western and soviet tanks.