![]() ![]() I was hoping for a Merkava but no dice (note: the museum rotates vehicles a lot, so maybe they have one but it was out). Watch your head! The only other vehicle outdoors looked like a bridgelayer based on a Leopard chassis. There is an M48 (I think) outside with some stairs to climb onto the turret and go inside. ![]() The next building houses the Cold War era and modern vehicles, most of which are Soviet and German with a few American and British tanks thrown in. It suddenly started raining very hard while we were in the museum and the corrugated roof made it extremely loud. No Italian or Japanese WWII vehicles that I could see. There are several allied vehicles as well, including a T-34/85, Sherman, Comet, M10 and SU-100. I was really impressed with the number of less common WWII German Panzers in the collection, including a Sturmtiger, Jagdpanzer IV, Hetzer, RSO Pak 40, Hummel and Wespe among others. Moving on I finally got to see a Tiger I, Panther, Jagdpanther and King Tiger in all their glory and marveled at how huge they are. ![]() Right after the lobby entrance was a PzKpfw III in beautiful condition and an A7V WWI replica (which looked a little too small). In the lobby/entrance area are displays with lots of biographical information on various people, but I wasn’t able to find anything on Panzer aces like Otto Carius or Michael Wittman. We arrived at Munster and took a taxi to the museum, although it is definitely a walkable distance. On the day of departure our train was delayed and we were going to miss our connections, so we were told to wait for the second train about an hour later and the same thing happened again! So we waited for the third train and it was on time and we finally left about 1100amish, about 3 hours later than planned. So I booked a round trip from Berlin to Munster for about US$70 per person. Well, things were indeed deceiving as I looked into booking the train routes, which required many connections and would take an entire day. ![]() When planning the trip and looking at the general itinerary it first appears that Munster is located right in between Berlin and Amsterdam and so I tried to see if we could take the train between those cities and simply make a brief stop at Munster. For many years I have been an avid WWII tank buff and scale modeler, so to be able to see real WWII German panzers was very exciting for me. My friend and I visited the Munster Panzer Museum on July 10, 2014. ![]()
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