Please keep the photos coming! This is a great virtual tour!
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And not only for military purposes.
Although, of course, there are not many of them,
but there is.
The museum’s main focus, of course, is military equipment.
I don’t know much about them and, afraid of making a mistake in identification, I’ll show them all at once.
Some of the equipment is in a semi-assembled state,
and some are half-disassembled.
However, it’s like the situation with the glass and the optimist/pessimist.
I’ll also include equipment here that wasn’t originally German-made, but became German as a result of certain processes, which are beyond the scope of this report. These are Austrian
and Czech cars.
And also one unique product, which is Swedish, but created on the basis of a German prototype.
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German motorcycles …
It would be strange if a museum dedicated to military mechanization overlooked such a significant topic as German motorcycles. But that’s not what happened! There they are, lined up along the wall.
Commenting here would only spoil things. The only thing is, I hope I don’t mix up the signs.
Several more motorcycles are picturesquely placed throughout the area,
including such a delicacy as Kettenkrad.
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and other German engines.
Guess the riddle: an engine and two wheels? No, not a motorcycle – those have already been done. It’s a trailer with an electric generator!
Sometimes they are immediately present together with the consumer of the electricity they produce.
However, generators can also be without wheels.
even if they are big.
And not just generators.
Well, there’s a lot of stuff here without wheels.
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Motorless Germans.
Despite the motor-themed name of the museum, the first thing that catches your eye from the entrance is two rows of wooden and not-so-wooden carts and wagons for various purposes, stretching to the horizon.
It should be noted that such exhibits are quite rare, both due to the fragility of wooden items and the lower interest they attract compared to their armored counterparts.
And once again – all together.
Next are no less interesting representatives of field cooking.
From other angles.
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The next representative is more militarized, so let’s go into a little more detail.
The ambulance trailer was left without a museum plaque
as well as its non-ambulance twin in another pavilion.
There, away from the main location, there are also their relatives,
Among which the means for overcoming water obstacles stand out.
And their iron brother.
I can’t resist self-promotion and will inform you that models of some of the exhibits shown, or similar ones, in 1/35 scale, can be viewed in my kitography, which is available in PDF format and as an electronic catalog (search, sorting, filter, etc.) on the website www.in-mirror-scale.ru or on this one, where I have provided links to them.
And that’s not all the motorless vehicles in this museum. There’s another series of similar, but lower-class, devices for your consideration.
I’m terribly sorry, but I’m back with my kitography. I have some on this topic too! Not in their entirety, but as a separate section in the collection “Devices driven by man“. Again: on the website www.in-mirror-scale.ru or on this one.
Canisters are, by definition, without engines.
This is what a museum tour turned out to be!
PS So we walked through another Russian military-technical museum. They just finished renovations and resumed dynamic presentations this Saturday. This time, they showed off an Italian tractor.
Judging by this photo from the event announcement, they’ve acquired a new exhibit – a German eight-wheeler that neither you nor I have ever seen.
It’ll be a good excuse to visit this museum again, which I always do with great pleasure.
We’ll meet again for another report about another large and interesting museum with the same focus. I haven’t shown you all of them yet.
And that’s not even mentioning the dozens and hundreds of smaller museums across the country.
See you soon!
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Thank you so much Yuri @fromSalekhard for another outstanding museum tour! Keep them coming! So much reference that I will never get a chance to see in my lifetime!
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