Museums full of swords, gun, tanks and battleships! This is more like it.
The Military History Museum, or Arsenal, is strangely hard to find for a building so massive. We wandered around for a good 10 minutes before we found it on the other end of a park near the Belvedere. Isn't that kind of far from the city center to put the cities arsenal?
Sometimes I forget there is a lot more military history to Austria besides WWI and II. Boy did this museum break that misconception. This museum wanted to make sure that Austria's martial history was well preserved and displayed. It's interesting seeing how the notion of war being a noble and heroic thing clearly is washed away when WWI starts. All the regal aspects of war is quickly replaced by cold, mechanized efficiency. It's scary.
Franz Ferdinand's Assassination Car
These guys really love Prince Eugene of Savoy...
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