Militaria Museums

Morlar

I thought I would start a thread on Militaria museums contributors have visited.

Starting with our own fine Collins Barracks (free admission & free parking : )

Well worth checking out though they dont allow photography if you are sneaky enough you may get a few before they notice. Among the areas covered in the excellent Wild Geese section are the confederate army, yankee army, franco prussian war, napeolonic campaigns, russian military, austrian military and so on. This is before you even get to the Irish Rising, War of Independence, Civil War, emergency, un missions etc

Some of the connections are a bit tenous (including was the son of Irish man who became an austrian airforce wwI EKI winner - though considering Edward Mannock was also Irish its good to know that 2 of the greatest aces in WWI were either Irish or of Irish descent

Here are some pics - they cover about 1/20 th of the displays on show - if anyone else has any please post them here too.

Collins Barracks

Michael Collins uniform

Morlar

Morlar

Here are some from the massive Imperial War Museum in London.

If anyone has more shots from here please include them here.

WWI British army



Russian Banners

Morlar

WWI No mans land bullet hole sign

Morlar

WWII German


WW2 German Reicharbeitsdeinst

Morlar

WW2 German S.A.



WWII German S.A., SS

Morlar

WWII German Visor



WWII German Narvik Shields

Morlar

WWII Panzer uniform



WWII German SS uniform & Medal spange

Morlar

Ultra rare 'July 20th Wound badge' in presentation case.

Very rare German medal - created specifically for those who survived the Stauffenberg bunker bomb
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_Badge )



Himmlers Death Mask

danpatjoe

Thank you Morlar,

Great thread with some excellent photographs!
Keep them coming if you have any more.

- Dan

Morlar

Cheers - I have some from the Smithsonian (from what I recall a messerschmit and a V1 & V2 etc) and some from one in Sydney (enigma etc) but the washington ones are on film not digital & the Sydney ones I will have to dig out, so if anyone else has any of their own then fire away !

arnhem44

I have a couple to post up,I must just sort out some of the photos,heres a link to some of the Imperial War Museum's collection in Duxford




[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Duxford Museum's Land Warfare Hall in 360°[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Land Warfare Hall at Duxford Imperial War Museum houses a fantastic collection of tanks, military vehicles and artillery displayed in a series of dramatic tableaux.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]More 360° pictures of the Land Warfare Hall »[/font]

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[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Duxford Museum Land Warfare Hall - View 2[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Duxford Museum Hangar 1[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Duxford Museum Hangar 4[/font]

Morlar

They are pretty cool & you can see why they wouldnt fit in the London location. The landing one reminded me of the d-day museum at Portsmouth.