 Dal Gavan  | 07 Oct 2025 3:18 a.m. PST |
Why "foreign"? Hopefully it will reduce parochial replies. I've been lucky enough to visit quite a few over the years, though all in Europe and the UK (unless Stone Mountain in Ga counts?). My definition of "Military Museum"? For the purpose of this poll, any museum which has what you believe is a significant military/naval/air force history component, for example the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. My favourite? I'd be hard pushed to choose between the:
1. Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum Vienna,
2. Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford, and
3. Plassenburg in Kulmbach (where both the Deutsches Zinnfigurenmuseum and Armeemuseum Friedrich der Gross are located). If you haven't had a chance to visit a foreign museum, which one would you like to visit? Or should that be a separate poll? |
| JimDuncanUK | 07 Oct 2025 3:49 a.m. PST |
Royal Military Museum, Brussels. |
| korsun0 | 07 Oct 2025 3:56 a.m. PST |
Royal Jordanian Tank Museum, Amman, Jordan. |
 Aurochs | 07 Oct 2025 4:14 a.m. PST |
Hôtel des Invalides in Paris |
 etotheipi  | 07 Oct 2025 5:32 a.m. PST |
The War Memorial of Korea, (Yongsan-Gu, Seoul Korea) |
| David Manley | 07 Oct 2025 5:32 a.m. PST |
Udvar Hazy Air Museum at Dulles Airport (it is foreign to me) Or did you mean "outside the USA"? |
| robert piepenbrink | 07 Oct 2025 5:43 a.m. PST |
National Army Museum, London. Of course not foreign to many of TMP. |
| JimDuncanUK | 07 Oct 2025 6:02 a.m. PST |
Or did you mean "outside the USA"? The original OP is an Aussie. |
| Wackmole9 | 07 Oct 2025 6:12 a.m. PST |
The Australian Armor & Artillery Museum |
| Dal Gavan | 07 Oct 2025 6:17 a.m. PST |
Udvar Hazy Air Museum at Dulles Airport (it is foreign to me)Or did you mean "outside the USA"? Foreign to you, mate. PS Udvar Hazy Air Museum is on my "If I win $50.00 AUD million" list, too. |
| Frederick | 07 Oct 2025 7:05 a.m. PST |
Hotel des Invalides followed by the Heeresgeschichtlichen After that, the National Army Museum I suspect Duxford would be up there but that is still on my bucket list The Guards Museum is nice but a little small |
 McKinstry  | 07 Oct 2025 7:16 a.m. PST |
The Royal Navy Museum in Portsmouth right next to the Victory, the Warrior and the Mary Rose. The Invalides is fantastic but there is just so much right there in Portsmouth. |
 Parzival | 07 Oct 2025 7:38 a.m. PST |
Depending on your point of origin, they could all be "foreign." No "museum" as such, but military sites include Massada, Kerak Castle, the City of David excavation site in old Jerusalem, Jericho and the Springs of En Gedi (where David and his men hid from the pursuit by Saul). I‘ve also been to the Golan Heights region… again, no museums but when I went (1980s) the area had destroyed Syrian tanks still in place where they had been blown apart by Israeli forces, as well as the remains of once villages bombed into nothing but rubble so as to deny invaders any walls to hide behind. The feeling of exposure to the heights is quite profound, producing a distinct sensation that you are being watched (you probably are) and have nowhere to hide (you don't). My only other military site outside the US was Fort Charlotte in Nassau, Bahamas, but it was never a battle site. |
| noggin2nog | 07 Oct 2025 8:25 a.m. PST |
The Artillery Museum, St Petersburg
Tank Museum, Saumur
Les Invalides, Paris
Any and all of the D-Day related museums in Normandy (If I wasn't from the UK, I'd also include The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds) |
| SBminisguy | 07 Oct 2025 8:50 a.m. PST |
The Royal Navy Museum in Portsmouth +1 Parzival +1 – there are any historic battlefields and ruins that are also interesting to excellent to profound – all based on personal views and the like. For example the Bosworth Battlefield when I visited included a marker at the site where they think Richard III was killed and a volunteer guide explained what happened, which was at odds with how history had been presented to me before then. So that's memorable. Same think with a visit to Gallipoli to see how the men there lived fought and died, and how close the trench lines were to each other, and how much the terrain reminded me of the Big Sur coastline in California ,etc. |
| IronDuke596 | 07 Oct 2025 9:10 a.m. PST |
Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum Vienna. |
| skedaddle | 07 Oct 2025 9:18 a.m. PST |
The Royal Armouries Museum
Barcelona Maritime Museum
The War Museum Denmark
HGM in Vienna |
| Fitzovich | 07 Oct 2025 9:46 a.m. PST |
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| DeRuyter | 07 Oct 2025 10:02 a.m. PST |
Battlefields and historic sites should be a separate poll question. Museums and sticking to the one's foreign to me: Portsmouth – Royal Navy Museum
Les Invalides
National Maritime Museum Greenwich
IWM various sites
Royal Army Museum in Chelesa.
Household Cavalry Museum London.
The Belgian Army Museum in Brussels
The Dutch Army Museum which used to be in Delft.
Het Scheepvaart(Maritime) Museum in Amsterdam.
The Waterloo battlefield museum – built for the bicentenary. Bucket list: D-Day museums, The Tank Museum Bovington and the one at Sameur as well. |
| Milgame | 07 Oct 2025 10:14 a.m. PST |
In addition to all the great museums mentioned above, here are three lesser known but worthwhile museums in Europe. A little known gem is the Military Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, in the old Belgrade Fortress at the confluence of the the Suva and Danube rivers. Extensive displays of arms, armor and uniforms from Roman times through the Yugoslav wars. The vehicle park outside is phenomenal -- the best collection of German WW2 armored vehicles and artillery from the April 1941 invasion. It's basically a sampling of what Germany had available at the start of Barbarossa, launched a few months later. The Royal Danish Arsenal Museum in Copenhagen is also great, especially for Great Northern War fans. Finally, the Musee de l'Empiri in Salons de Provence, France has a fantastic and comprehensive collection of First Empire uniforms. |
| 14Bore | 07 Oct 2025 10:16 a.m. PST |
Went to Imperial War Museum about 1980 |
| Royston Papworth | 07 Oct 2025 10:36 a.m. PST |
Hôtel des Invalides in Paris |
| robert piepenbrink | 07 Oct 2025 10:54 a.m. PST |
If we're listing more than one "favorite" Australian Armour & Artillery Museum should certainly be on the list--I never miss Workshop Wednesday--Bovington, and, as someone who has had Hanoverian armies for every period in which Hanover had an army, the Bomann Museum in Hanover. For those who haven't done Germany, there's a whole series of regional army museums--Hanover, Hesse, Bavaria and so forth--well worth the trip. |
| Wolfhag | 07 Oct 2025 11:23 a.m. PST |
Royal Tank Museum, Bovington, England. Wolfhag |
| robert piepenbrink | 07 Oct 2025 11:24 a.m. PST |
SB, which Bosworth battlefield did you visit? I had a nice look-see early in the century, but they've moved the battlefield about three miles since then. There's a Jodi Taylor story in there somewhere. |
| BattlerBritain | 07 Oct 2025 1:43 p.m. PST |
Overloon in Holland. Visited there in 1980 and they had a knocked out Panther still in the place it had been knocked out surrounded by 5 Shermans. There was about 50 yards max between all vehicles. You could see where the Panther's 75mm shells had hit the Shermans. One Sherman had 4 holes by the right front bogey all touching each other. And a few years later I met my great-uncle who'd fought there 🙄. |
| nickinsomerset | 07 Oct 2025 1:58 p.m. PST |
Overloon and of course the Panzer Museum, Munsterlager, Germany, Tally Ho! |
| epturner | 07 Oct 2025 2:07 p.m. PST |
I really liked the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum in Oslo. Tremendous amount of artefacts and models. Eric |
| TimePortal | 07 Oct 2025 3:55 p.m. PST |
My ability to visit military museums was limited.
I enjoyed the British National Military Museum In London.
I also enjoyed a visit to the Munich Technology Museum. They had on display several war items. My favorite was a U-Boat that was cut in half front to back. |
 piper909 | 07 Oct 2025 3:57 p.m. PST |
Musee de l'Armee/Hotel des Invalides (Paris)
National Army Museum (London)
Black Watch Regimental Museum (Perth, Scotland)
Scottish United Services Museum (Edinburgh) -- believe it's been renamed? Vastly enjoyed every one of these during travels. |
| Berzerker73 | 07 Oct 2025 4:41 p.m. PST |
Plains of Abraham Quebec City |
| Dal Gavan | 07 Oct 2025 6:02 p.m. PST |
Scottish United Services Museum (Edinburgh) -- believe it's been renamed? Yes, Piper. It's now the Scottish National War Museum, and comes under Scottish National Museums. The regimental Museums are still separate, though there's also the Royal Regiment of Scotland museum as well the Royal Scots and RSDG. I'm seeing a good mix of museums mentioned, including some I missed. Perhaps I should have written the topic as "What is your favourite FOREIGN military museums (list up to five)?" Hopefully they'll be of use for anyone who's planning some travel. I agree with DeRuyter and think the battlefields should be a separate poll, though, as they can confuse the issue a bit. |
| nsolomon99 | 07 Oct 2025 9:19 p.m. PST |
For me its the Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum in Vienna, fabulous place. On the same visit to the Danube River valley in the northern summer of 1998 I visited the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt and that was worth a stop and 2 hours of wandering around the exhibits and the old fortress in which it was housed. |
| Stoppage | 08 Oct 2025 3:51 a.m. PST |
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 miniMo | 08 Oct 2025 8:44 a.m. PST |
Imperial War Museum, London
Top notch interactive exhibits for any sort of museum. |
| Korvessa | 08 Oct 2025 12:52 p.m. PST |
Tank Museum in Finland (although it's been 40+ years since I have been there)
Airborne museum in Normandy |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 08 Oct 2025 4:07 p.m. PST |
Imperial War Museum in London and the Military History Institute in Prague, aka "Museum Žižkov". |
| piper909 | 09 Oct 2025 10:50 p.m. PST |
I overlooked a grand WWII museum on the fringes of Bayeux, Normandy! Forget the name offhand. It's near a Commonwealth cemetery as well. |
| The H Man | 10 Oct 2025 1:23 a.m. PST |
What's foreign? What if you've only been to ones in your country? Not everyone travels. Also do we include cyber tours? Or events in which military museums may partake? So on. Never a Michael Jackson song. |
