The museum
Emblem of the Panzermuseum
Munster
Panzermuseum.com is
a "fan site" of the Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster, one of
the premier armor museums in the world, as well as a resource for captured
German war records found at the U.S. National Archives.
The museum shows the development of Germany's armored troops from 1917
to the present with displays of vehicles, weapons, equipment, uniforms,
documents and medals. The museum's exhibits cover all branches of the
German armored corps: tanks, mechanized infantry, armored reconnaissance,
anti-tank, self-propelled artillery, and armored engineers.
The following displays will give you an overview of what you can see
at the Panzermuseum:
* A display showing the evolution of armor from the ancient chariot
to the modern-day Main Battle Tank, shown together with a 1:35 scale
tank model collection.
* About 40 vehicles of the Bundeswehr and the former East German People's Army
(Nationale Volksarmee, or NVA) from 1955 to the present: Motorcycles, wheeled
vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, light tanks, prime movers, tank destroyers,
and main battle tanks.
* Another 40 vehicles of the Wehrmacht from 1934 to 1945: Panzer I, Panzer III,
Panzer IV, Panzer V "Panther", Panzer VI King Tiger tank, assault guns,
tank destroyers, light tanks, half-tracks, trucks, anti-tank guns from 37mm to
88mm, and anti-aircraft guns.
* Armoured vehicles of the American, British, Swedish and Russian armies.
* DAIMLER Schupo schupo-Sonderwagen DZVR 21, the standard wheel tank of the police
during the Weimar Republic as Unikat.
* International modern steel helmet collection.
* The only European full-scale reproduction of the German A7V assault tank used
during World War I.
* 120 German hand weapons since 1841: rifles, machine guns, submachine guns,
anti-tank weapons, and anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM).
* About 100 German army uniforms from 1866 to today, including the original field
blouses of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and General Heinz Guderian.
* 160 German military medals and decorations, plus documents from 1813 to today.
* An ongoing special exhibition of German military handguns from 1871 to 1989
(118 pistols). |
The Panzermuseum is also constantly improving and revising its holdings
with special exhibitions, new acquisitions, and demonstrations by regional
model building clubs and other groups.
You
may contact museum authorities there.
The official website of
the Museum stands here.
Location information
The museum is located
at Munster
Hans-Krüger-Str. 33
Munster
29633
Personal note
We needed ten hours to go to and return from there (we started from Liège in
Belgium). Beware of traffic jams (we wer blocked five times). But in Munster
city itself there was no traffic at all. There
are two cities named Munster in Germany, the one you must seek is located near
Hamburg.
This left us only one hour and half to visit the museum, we managed to do it
but foresee at least two hours to visit this at ease.
The museum is smaller
than the one of Bovington in Great Britain but still deserves a visit
not only for its WW2 cillection of vehicles but also for its specialty:
East-German tanks of the "Cold War" era.
