Good Museums. - Page 2

Owen · 05-06-2006, 07:57 AM

(I visited Canadian War Museum in 1992.)
Loki's post reminds me of The Arsenal in Vienna. Went there in 1990. Didn't know what to expect.
http://www.hgm.or.at/eng/

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Outstanding exhibits include the automobile in which Archduke Francis Ferdinand rode and the uniform he wore when he was assassinated at Sarajevo in June of 1914 (the event touched off World War I)

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Three objects dominate this room: the automobile in which the heir to the throne Francis Ferdinand and his wife were shot in 1914, the blood-stained uniform of the Archduke and the chaiselongue on which he died

Better put some Tanks in for VP as it's his thread.

von Poop · 05-06-2006, 09:05 AM

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Tanks.

Peter Clare · 05-06-2006, 12:31 PM

I'd go for Cosford - Duxford and Hendon.
I've found the curators of each of these museums to be very helpful. At Cosford I was permited to board their Liberator (now at Hendon) and photograph it extensively. At Hendon I did the same with their Blenheim and at Duxford their Shackleton, also at Duxford I was given a tour of their workshops without even asking, an added bonus.

Kiwiwriter · 05-06-2006, 05:18 PM

Imperial War Museum. No question. It has everything I want to see...and I donated items from 9/11 to them, too!

Gnomey · 05-06-2006, 09:10 PM

I like the IWM another one to look out for is the RAF Museum at Hendon and Duxford of course.

kfz · 05-06-2006, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Peter Clare

I'd go for Cosford - Duxford and Hendon.
I've found the curators of each of these museums to be very helpful. At Cosford I was permited to board their Liberator (now at Hendon) and photograph it extensively. At Hendon I did the same with their Blenheim and at Duxford their Shackleton, also at Duxford I was given a tour of their workshops without even asking, an added bonus.

oh yea Cosford.. Fantastic, massive amount of expermental and specialsit stuff.

the V1, V2, the radio/wire guided bombs, the air to air missiles, Komet, A 262 (I think).

Also if you into post war jets, 3 lightning prototypes (amazing), a TSR2, the fairy delta, laods of other stuff I cant remember. Even dead easy to get to nbot far from the M6.

Another must do.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/Cosford/index.cfm

von Poop · 05-06-2006, 09:41 PM

And the cold war (oops, I mentioned the cold war...) hall at Cosford is finished this year, all the V-Bombers under one roof. Cosford & Hendon are also Free!

von Poop · 06-06-2006, 09:45 AM

I've held back but Now I have to say it.

Bovington Tank Museum,

http://www.tankmuseum.co.uk/colhid.html (Hidden collection)
http://www.tiger-tank.com/secure/journal.htm (Tiger 131 journal)

If you haven't been then go. A world standard collection possibly only eclipsed by Kubinka's...

Anyone been to Kubinka?, we're looking into it but it looks like a
Bureaucratic nightmare to get in. Anyone been through the process?

kfz · 08-06-2006, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Von Poop

I've held back but Now I have to say it.

Bovington Tank Museum,

http://www.tankmuseum.co.uk/colhid.html (Hidden collection)
http://www.tiger-tank.com/secure/journal.htm (Tiger 131 journal)

If you haven't been then go. A world standard collection possibly only eclipsed by Kubinka's...

Anyone been to Kubinka?, we're looking into it but it looks like a
Bureaucratic nightmare to get in. Anyone been through the process?

Just dont take the Wife/girlfriend/partner person....

I nearly got divorced.

"look look its a king tiger!!!"

"any look over there a DD Sherman!!"

von Poop · 08-06-2006, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by kfz

Just dont take the Wife/girlfriend/parnter person....

I nearly got divorced.

"look look its king tiger!!!"

Luckily I have an extremely tolerant missus.
I smile and nod at her rattling on about allotments.
She smiles and nods at my rattling on about Tanks.

If you like the Kingtiger(P) they've got there then get yourself down to 'Tankfest' on the 25th. The Henschell Koenigstiger from Shrivenham will be on public display for the first time ever, not often you see 2 PzVIBs' in the same place.

05-06-2006, 05:18 PM	#14 (permalink)
Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ Posts: 2,443	My top museum Imperial War Museum. No question. It has everything I want to see...and I donated items from 9/11 to them, too! __________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com

05-06-2006, 09:10 PM	#15 (permalink)
Gnomey Per Ardua Ad Astra Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 2,931	I like the IWM another one to look out for is the RAF Museum at Hendon and Duxford of course. __________________ "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum

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von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 7,679	mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Tanks.

05-06-2006, 12:31 PM	#13 (permalink)
Peter Clare Legendary Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Windsor UK Posts: 5,006	I'd go for Cosford - Duxford and Hendon. I've found the curators of each of these museums to be very helpful. At Cosford I was permited to board their Liberator (now at Hendon) and photograph it extensively. At Hendon I did the same with their Blenheim and at Duxford their Shackleton, also at Duxford I was given a tour of their workshops without even asking, an added bonus.

05-06-2006, 09:41 PM	#17 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 7,679	And the cold war (oops, I mentioned the cold war...) hall at Cosford is finished this year, all the V-Bombers under one roof. Cosford & Hendon are also Free!

06-06-2006, 09:45 AM	#18 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 7,679	I've held back but Now I have to say it. Bovington Tank Museum, http://www.tankmuseum.co.uk/colhid.html (Hidden collection) http://www.tiger-tank.com/secure/journal.htm (Tiger 131 journal) If you haven't been then go. A world standard collection possibly only eclipsed by Kubinka's... Anyone been to Kubinka?, we're looking into it but it looks like a Bureaucratic nightmare to get in. Anyone been through the process?

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