A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts (not least weapons), documents, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the military and war. Some of these institutions may also be used as a war memorial for a particular country or conflict.
These institutions vary in their scope and focus, with some museums dedicated to a specific national or regional context and chronicling the military history of a particular country or region, while other museums may concentrate on a particular conflict, era, service, technology (like an artillery museum), or unit (like a regimental museum).
The following is a list of military museums by country:
Austria
editAustralia
edit- Army Museum Bandiana
- Army Museum of Tasmania
- Army Museum of Western Australia
- Australian Armour and Artillery Museum
- Australian Army Artillery Museum
- Australian War Memorial
- Bublacowie Military Museum
- Darwin Military Museum
- Fighter World
- Fleet Air Arm Museum (Australia)
- Gippsland Armed Forces Museum
- Light Horse & Field Artillery Museum
- Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum
- Maryborough Military and Colonial Museum
- National Military Vehicle Museum
- National Vietnam Veterans Museum
- RAAF Museum
- RAAF Wagga Heritage Centre
- Royal Australian Armoured Corps Memorial and Army Tank Museum
- Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre
Bangladesh
editBelgium
editBulgaria
editCanada
edit- Base Borden Military Museum
- Bomber Command Museum of Canada
- Canadian War Museum
- Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
- Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society
- Cold Lake Air Force Museum
- Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum
- Comox Air Force Museum
- Elgin Military Museum
- Fort Garry Horse Museum & Archives
- Greenwood Military Aviation Museum
- Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment Museum
- Military Communications and Electronics Museum
- Musée de la Défense aérienne
- National Air Force Museum of Canada
- Naval Museum of Halifax
- Naval Museum of Manitoba
- Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum
- Royal Canadian Artillery Museum
- Royal Canadian Regiment Museum
- Royal Military College of Canada Museum
- Secrets of Radar Museum
- Shearwater Aviation Museum
- Swords and Ploughshares Museum
- The Military Museums
China
edit- Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution
- Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
Hong Kong
editCzech Republic
editDenmark
editEl Salvador
editEstonia
editFinland
editFrance
edit- Airborne Museum (Sainte-Mère-Église)
- Army Museum (Paris)
- Bullecourt 1917, Jean and Denise Letaille museum
- Carrière Wellington
- Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour
- Foreign Legion Museum
- Juno Beach Centre
- Mémorial de Caen
- Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération
- Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation à Grenoble
- Musée des Blindés
- Musée des Plans-Reliefs
- Musée du Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris – Musée Jean Moulin
- Musée Pierre-Jost
- Museum of the Great War
- National Gendarmerie Museum
- Overlord Museum
- Salle des Traditions de la Garde Républicaine
Germany
editGreece
edit- 1912–1913 War Museum
- Athens War Museum
- Balkan Wars Museum
- Hellenic Air Force Museum
- Kilkis War Museum
- Lachanas Military Museum
- Museum for the Macedonian Struggle (Thessaloniki)
- Museum of the Battle of Crete and the National Resistance
- Museum of the Kalavryta Holocaust
- Museum of the Macedonian Struggle (Kastoria)
- Pavlos Melas Museum
- War Museum of Chania
- War Museum of Kalpaki
- War Museum of Thessaloniki
India
editIndonesia
editIran
editIreland
editIsrael
editItaly
editJapan
edit- Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum
- Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage
- Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots
- Gifu Sekigahara Battlefield Memorial Museum
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
- Japanese Sword Museum
- JMSDF Kure Museum
- Kaiten Memorial Museum
- Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum
- Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
- Peace Museum of Saitama
- Yokaren Peace Memorial Museum
- Yūshūkan
Jordan
editNetherlands
editNew Zealand
editNorway
editPhilippines
editPoland
editRomania
editRussia
edit- Central Air Force Museum
- Central Armed Forces Museum
- Central Naval Museum
- Kremlin Armoury
- Kronstadt Naval Museum
- Kubinka Tank Museum
- Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps
- Military History Museum of the Far Eastern Military District
- Museum of Russian Submarine Forces
- Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow
- Ratnaya Palata
- Russian Museum of Military Medicine
- Taganrog military museum
Serbia
editSingapore
editSouth Africa
editSouth Korea
editSpain
editSweden
editSwitzerland
editTaiwan
editThailand
editTurkey
editUkraine
edit- Museum of Partisan Glory
- National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War
- National Museum-Preserve of Ukrainian military achievements
- Naval museum complex Balaklava
- Poltava Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation
- Strategic missile forces museum in Ukraine
- Suvorov Museum, Timanivka
United Kingdom
edit- 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum
- Aldershot Military Museum
- Army Flying Museum
- Cheshire Military Museum
- Combined Military Services Museum
- Devonport Naval Heritage Centre
- Eden Camp Museum
- Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower
- Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier
- Fleet Air Arm Museum
- Fusilier Museum
- Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland
- Green Howards Regimental Museum
- Gordon Highlanders Museum
- Honourable Artillery Company Museum
- HorsePower: The Museum of the King's Royal Hussars
- Imperial War Museum
- Jewish Military Museum
- Kent Battle of Britain Museum
- Lancashire Infantry Museum
- Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
- Lowestoft War Memorial Museum
- Military Wireless Museum in the Midlands
- Monmouth Regimental Museum
- Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre
- Muckleburgh Collection
- Museum of Lancashire
- Museum of Army Transport
- Museum of Military Medicine
- Museum of the Adjutant General's Corps
- National Army Museum
- National Museum of the Royal Navy
- National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth
- Norfolk Tank Museum
- National War Museum
- Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Museum
- RAF Air Defence Radar Museum
- Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh
- REME Museum
- Royal Air Force Museum
- Royal Armouries Museum
- Royal Army Chaplains' Museum
- Royal Artillery Museum
- Royal Engineers Museum
- Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum
- Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum
- Royal Logistic Corps Museum
- Royal Marines Museum
- Royal Navy Submarine Museum
- Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire)
- Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum
- Royal Signals Museum
- Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum
- Scottish Submarine Centre
- Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
- Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
- Shoreham Aircraft Museum
- Somerset Military Museum
- Somme Heritage Centre
- Staffordshire Regiment Museum
- Stratford Armouries
- Tangmere Military Aviation Museum
- The D-Day Story
- The Guards Museum
- The Gurkha Museum
- The Museum of Technology
- The Museum of the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) and the Royal Regiment of Scotland
- The Queen's Own Hussars Museum
- The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum
- The Rifles Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum
- The Rifles Museum
- The Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum
- The Second World War Experience Centre
- The Tank Museum
- Trenchard Museum
- Yorkshire Air Museum
United States
edit- 1st Infantry Division Museum
- 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
- African American Civil War Memorial Museum
- African American Military History Museum
- Air Force Armament Museum
- Air Force Flight Test Museum
- Airborne & Special Operations Museum
- American Airpower Museum
- American Civil War Museum
- American Heritage Museum
- Arkansas Air & Military Museum
- Arkansas National Guard Museum
- Armed Forces History Museum
- Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum
- Averasboro Battlefield and Museum
- B-36 Peacemaker Museum
- Barksdale Global Power Museum
- Battlefield Vegas
- Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial
- Blue and Gray Museum (Alabama)
- Braddock's Battlefield History Center
- Bristol Train of Artillery Museum
- Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
- CAF Rocky Mountain Wing Museum
- California State Military Museum
- Camp Gordon Johnston Museum
- Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum
- Castle Air Museum
- Champlin Fighter Museum
- Chennault Aviation and Military Museum
- Civil War Museum (Bardstown)
- Civil War Museum of Philadelphia
- Combat Air Museum
- Corporal Larry E. Smedley National Vietnam War Museum
- Eldred World War II Museum
- Estrella Warbird Museum
- Evansville Wartime Museum
- Fagen Fighters WWII Museum
- Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum
- Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum
- Indiana Military Museum
- G.A.R. Hall and Museum
- Grissom Air Museum
- Hampton Roads Naval Museum
- Harbor Defense Museum
- Hawthorne Ordnance Museum
- Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles
- Hessian Powder Magazine
- Hill Aerospace Museum
- Iron Building (Watervliet Arsenal)
- Lewis Army Museum
- J. M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum
- Loring Military Heritage Center
- Malmstrom Museum
- MAPS Air Museum
- Marine Corps Legacy Museum
- Marine Corps Museum
- Marine Raider Museum
- McChord Air Museum
- MCRD San Diego Command Museum
- Military Aviation Museum
- Military Heritage & Aviation Museum
- Military Museum of Butte County
- Military Museum of North Florida
- Military Sea Services Museum
- Military Vehicle Technology Foundation
- Milwaukee County War Memorial
- Minnesota Military Museum
- Mississippi Armed Forces Museum
- Motts Military Museum
- Museum of the American Revolution
- Museum of the Marine
- Museum of Weapons and Early American History
- National Atomic Testing Museum
- National Civil War Museum
- National Civil War Naval Museum
- National Firearms Museum
- National Guard Memorial Museum
- National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey
- National Infantry Museum
- National Museum of American Jewish Military History
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- National Museum of Military Vehicles
- National Museum of the American Sailor
- National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
- National Museum of the Marine Corps
- National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
- National Museum of the Pacific War
- National Museum of the United States Air Force
- National Museum of the United States Army
- National Museum of the United States Navy
- National Museum of World War II Aviation
- National Naval Aviation Museum
- National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum
- National Veterans Memorial and Museum
- National Warplane Museum
- National World War I Museum and Memorial
- National WWII Museum
- Naval Air Museum Barbers Point
- Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum
- Naval Museum of Armament & Technology
- Naval War College Museum
- New England Civil War Museum
- New Jersey Naval Museum
- Oregon Military Museum
- Parris Island Museum
- Patriots Point
- Patuxent River Naval Air Museum
- Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum
- Pennsylvania Military Museum
- Peterson Air and Space Museum
- Polish Home Army Museum, Orchard Lake, Michigan
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum
- Powder Magazine (Charleston, South Carolina)
- Pritzker Military Museum & Library
- Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum
- Ropkey Armor Museum
- Russell Military Museum
- Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum
- Seabee Museum and Memorial Park
- Selfridge Military Air Museum
- Silent Wings Museum
- Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum
- South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum
- Spanish Military Hospital Museum
- Springfield Armory
- Submarine Force Library and Museum
- Texas Civil War Museum
- Texas Military Forces Museum
- The International Museum of World War II
- Travis Air Force Base Aviation Museum
- Tri-State Warbird Museum
- United States Army Aviation Museum
- U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center
- U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii
- U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum
- U.S. Cavalry Museum
- U.S. Naval Academy Museum
- United States Army Medical Department Museum
- United States Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center
- United States Army Women's Museum
- United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum
- United States Naval Undersea Museum
- USAF Airman Heritage Museum
- USS Constitution Museum
- USS Midway Museum
- Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum
- Virginia War Museum
- War Between the States Museum
- War of 1812 Museum (Plattsburgh)
- Washington National Guard Museum
- Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum
- Wisconsin Veterans Museum
- WWII/Korea LVT Museum
Uruguay
editVietnam
editSee also
edit- List of museums
- List of Holocaust memorials and museums
- Lists of war monuments and memorials
- National Museum of Military History (disambiguation)
- Peace museum
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