Tank storage facility of the Royal Museum of the Armed forces: Open doors day 2007

Practical information

The Tank department of the National Army Museum (Brussels)

Wedged between the IRPA-building, the 1914-1918 gallery and the Air department there used to be a little courtyard full of rubble, weeds and rusty bits of military equipment. With the help of a host of volunteers, this woeful sight metamorphosed into a Tank Section of exceptional richness, which opened on 9 May 1980. The collection comprises not only the majority of the armoured vehicles used by the Belgian army from 1935 to the present, but also a large number of foreign tanks including the British Churchill and Centurion, the French EBR-Panhard, the Russian T-34 and the American Sherman. There are more than 250 tanks overall, thirty something of them on display in this section. The other remaining vehicles and a stock of spare parts are stored in the hangars of the Kapellen fort in Antwerp, one of the Museum’s storage facilities. This collection is one of the most important in Europe, representing production from 1917 to the present.

Tank storage facility (Kapellen) (09/09/2007)

The open doors day at the remote storage of Kapellen meets with quite a success. Especially the newly restored French armoured vehicle EBR Panhard (with driver in the front and the rear) and the Russian T-72 tank with its amazing bulldozer capacity amaze.

More information is available at the Royal Museum of the Armed forces and Military History website, at the Site Depot Kapellen website, at the Tank Museum Association (Site Depot Kapellen and Vissenaken) website.

You may contact the Tank Museum association here.

Location information

Fortsteenweg 51, 2950 Kapellen (located at 137 km from Liège)