Military History Museum Budapest
 West facade with main entrance (2007) |
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| place | 1014 Budapest, Tóth Árpád sétány No. 40 |
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Army Museum
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| opening | 1918 |
| management |
Vilmos Kovács
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The Military History Museum ( Hungarian Hadtörténeti Intézet és Múzeum , German literally " Army History Institute and Museum " , formerly also "Army History Museum") in Budapest presents a rich collection of historical weapons , uniforms , flags , maps and projectiles from the time of the Turkish wars in the 16th century Century to modern times.
Additionally, it offers one of about 28,000 coins existing numismatic collection. The exhibition on the Hungarian People's Uprising of 1956 deserves special attention . It began on October 23, 1956 with a peaceful large-scale demonstration by Hungarian students and was bloodily suppressed on November 4, 1956 by Soviet troops . According to the duration of the uprising, the museum exhibition is entitled “13 days”.
history
The Army History Museum was founded in 1918 by Colonel Kamil Agházy and Major General János Gabányi. The west wing of the Nándor barracks, built in 1847 in the classicist style , has served as the museum's headquarters since 1926 . In World War II, two-thirds of the museum's collection were about destroyed. After the war, the collection began to grow again.
Exhibits
The museum's weapons collection alone now contains more than 50,000 objects, such as handguns , machine guns and other military equipment.
A special rarity , the native of the 1929 Enigma-H is (left) . It is an early forerunner of the Enigma rotor cipher machine, which was later used by the German armed forces to encrypt their communications during World War II .
The museum is open every day, except Monday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Web links
- Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , accessed on March 2, 2018.
- Museum of Military History , accessed March 2, 2018.
- Exterior view , accessed March 2, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Iron Curtain - A vasugtgöny from Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien (editor), Military History Museum Budapest (editor), 2001, accessed on March 23, 2018.
- ↑ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , accessed on March 2, 2018.
- ^ Museum of Military History , accessed March 2, 2018.
Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 15 ″ N , 19 ° 1 ′ 39 ″ E