Military History Museum

The Military History Museum is the oldest in Vienna and is housed in the building of the Central Arsenal, built in 1850-1856 in the Moorish-Byzantine style. There is a huge collection of objects related to military history, science, technology, art and architecture. The exhibition covers the period from the beginning of the Thirty Years’ War to the end of World War II.

Permanent exhibitions of the museum include: “Thirty Years’ War”, “Turkish Wars”, “Prince Eugen”, “Maria Teresa (18th century)”, “Hall of the Revolution”, “Radet Hall”, “Hall of Franz Josef”, “Sarajevo”, “First World War”, “Republics and Dictatorship”. Austria from 1918 to 1945, Maritime Austria, A collection of tanks (opened from April to October in the so-called "armored garden"), Artillery Hall.

Visitors will see armor of medieval knights, various types of weapons, uniforms of soldiers and insignia, the car of Archduke Ferdinand, whose murder is associated with the beginning of the First World War, paintings depicting various battles in which the Austro-Hungarian army took part, and many other equally interesting exhibits.