Tank Museum

I'm in the Armed Forces, and also interested in my jobs history. It was just my luck to have a Tank museum three minutes down the road from where I live in Bovington. So I decided to go have a visit with my mates one day. From the minute you walk into the museum, history just hits you. It is host to lots of historical war fighting equipment, from clothes to smaller weaponry, to obviously tanks. The tanks on show time right back to the World wars to the very present. It is host too Sherman Tanks, some of which are the only one left of its kind, right up to the Challenger 2, with modules such as the Scimitar and Chieftan in between. Occasionally the ...  Read the complete review

We visited the Tank Museum in Dorset this week. If you are in the area on holiday this is well worth a visit. The army's tank training and testing range is based at Bovington, all the army's tank crews undertake their training here. The museum was founded in 1919 and has the worlds largest collection of historic tanks.There are 150 tanks on display, each section is dedicated to a particular period. From the original WW1 tanks through to todays tanks are displayed together with videos and information about each model. Many of the tanks are open for you to look inside, allowing a rare glimpse inside these machines. The museum is not ...  Read the complete review

O.K so a tank museum doesn't sound very interesting, but honestly this is a good one if you have a spare day at the end of the week. The best days to go are Thursdays and Fridays when there's a show involving mock battles with pyrotechnics and a range of armoured vehicles. The show starts at midday and goes on until about one. The best thing to do is turn up, watch the show, have lunch at the restaurant next door and then look around the museum in the afternoon. Although this is a tank museum the first display is solely based on WW1 as you walk into an army recruiting office before going through the battered streets of France and then onto a very realistic trench ...  Read the complete review