The Museum of the Polish Army (Muzeum Wojska Polskiego) is located in Warsaw on the Jerusalem Alleys. It was created on April 22, 1920 by the decree of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski as a visual representation of the glorious military history of Poland. In 1939, the number of exhibits stored here exceeded 60 thousand. During the Second World War and the German occupation, a significant part of the exhibits were taken to Germany. Thus, almost a third part of the exhibition was lost, the rest was recreated again in 1946.
The museum consists of several halls, where exhibits of different eras are stored, from the period of the emergence of the Kingdom of Poland to the present. The exposition is known for its rich collection of military objects. Among the exhibits of the museum, there is the chain mail of King Jan Kazimir, the mace of the crown hetman Stanislav Yablonovsky, the sword of the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Stanislav Poniatowski, personal belongings of the leader of the National uprising Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a saddle that belonged to Napoleon I, as well as weapons, hussar armor, military equipment.
There are also books, works of art, photographs, historical documents and military artifacts brought from Mongolia, Ottoman Turkey and Japan. In the museum courtyard there is Polish military equipment of the 20th century-planes and armored vehicles. In the proposed review the main attention is paid to the weapons and equipment of the soldiers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th-18th centuries.
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The Museum of the Polish Army (Muzeum Wojska Polskiego) is located in Warsaw on the Jerusalem Alleys. It was created on April 22, 1920 by the decree of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski as a visual representation of the glorious military history of Poland. In 1939, the number of exhibits stored here exceeded 60 thousand. During the Second World War and the German occupation, a significant part of the exhibits were taken to Germany. Thus, almost a third part of the exhibition was lost, the rest was recreated again in 1946.
The museum consists of several halls, where exhibits of different eras are stored, from the period of the emergence of the Kingdom of Poland to the present. The exposition is known for its rich collection of military objects. Among the exhibits of the museum, there is the chain mail of King Jan Kazimir, the mace of the crown hetman Stanislav Yablonovsky, the sword of the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Stanislav Poniatowski, personal belongings of the leader of the National uprising Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a saddle that belonged to Napoleon I, as well as weapons, hussar armor, military equipment.
There are also books, works of art, photographs, historical documents and military artifacts brought from Mongolia, Ottoman Turkey and Japan. In the museum courtyard there is Polish military equipment of the 20th century-planes and armored vehicles. In the proposed review the main attention is paid to the weapons and equipment of the soldiers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th-18th centuries.
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