Founding of Arsenalen, Swedish Armour Museum - Interview with Stefan Karlsson, Museum Director

Arsenalen Armour Museum - interview with Stefan Karlsson, Arsenalen Museum Director.
"I see that there's old machines, old armored cars, a lot of Swedish built vehicles, a lot of German built vehicles. What's the history of the museum and the vehicles you have here?"
A group of people traveled around Sweden in early 1960s gathering machines left in different locations, and they found a lot of interesting vehicles from the past. They also found a lot of things that were just standing and perhaps waiting for being scrapped. So in 1969, they opened a new tank museum, for the public.

The Swedish Tank Museum – Showing the military vehicle development, as well as the military history of Sweden, from the early 20th century until today.
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The Swedish Tank Museum – Showing the military vehicle development, as well as the military history of Sweden, from the early 20th century until today. The museum also includes a very special exhibition of tin figures, as well as a soldier’s croft dating back to the 17th century, where an accompanying exhibition tells you about a bygone era.
The museum was inaugurated June 17, 2011 and is open year round. Run by a private foundation – Foundation Södermanland Military History collections. The vehicles belong to the Swedish Government – the Swedish National Museums of Military History. The vehicles were previously located to the Tank Museum in Axvall and Military Vehicle Museum in Malmköping. The collection includes about 350 vehicles, of which about 75 are on display in the museum. Some parts of the exhibition changes each year.
Beside the museum there is an original soldiers croft from late 19th century with an accompanying exhibition, The Soldier and the Croft. An exhibition about the history of the local Regiment (Södermanland regiment) tell the story from 14thcentury until 2005 when the regiment was closed. The figure museum is a private collection which previously existed as a museum in Hjortnäs in Dalarna.
https://www.arsenalen.se/en

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