Royal Tank Museum
The Royal Tank Museum ( Arabic متحف الدبابات الملكي, DMG Matḥaf ad-Dabbābāt al-Malakī ) is a military museum in the Jordanian capital Amman . It is the first of its kind in the Arab world and one of the largest historical tank museums in the world. The Royal Tank Museum was inaugurated on January 29, 2018.
The museum exhibits around 110 tanks from Jordan , US and British production on almost 20,000 m² . One room is dedicated to the local military industry and shows current vehicle models. The museum includes original equipment and some rare and restored parts, which tell the development of military vehicles since 1915. The building was built according to a design by the Jordanian architect Zaid Daoud and is the largest museum in Jordan in terms of exhibition space.
Web links
- Official site (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ متحف الدبابات الملكي يروي التاريخ العسكري للأردن , in: Sputnik , February 25, 2018
- ↑ a b A century of Middle East wars on display at Jordanian museum , in: The Times of Israel , February 6, 2018
- ↑ افتتاح متحف الدبابات الملكي في الأردن | روسيا اليوم