Tula State Museum of Weapons

Tula State Museum of Weapons is one of the oldest Russian museums and the most important and world-famous landmark of Tula. The museum is located in a separate large building on the waterfront of Dreyer and is very popular with tourists.

Tula has long been famous for its gunsmiths, so it is not surprising that it was in this city that the largest weapons museum in Russia appeared. Indication of its creation gave the Russian Empress Catherine II, when she visited the Tula arms factory and was surprised by the extensive collections of rare weapons collected by his administration. In the same year a museum was established.

Tula State Museum of Arms has repeatedly won the highest awards at international exhibitions in Europe and America. Many of the exhibits here are unique. Under the roof of the museum there is a huge collection of various weapons, cold and firearms: swords, sabers, pistols, guns, aviation machine guns - here you can see everything, trace the entire path of the evolution of weapons. In the halls of the museum there is always a huge number of tourists, Russian and foreign.