Musée des Blindés

Local nameMusée des Blindés
LocationSaumur, France

The Musée des Blindés or Musée Général Estienne is a tank museum located in the Loire Valley of France, in the town of Saumur. It is now one of the world's largest tank museums. It began in 1977 under the leadership of Colonel Michel Aubry, who convinced both the French military hierarchy and the local political authorities. Started 44 years ago with only a few hundred tracked vehicles, it has become a world-class collection which attracts visitors interested in the history of multinational tank development as well as professional armor specialists. From the very beginning, Colonel Aubry had made it a key policy of the museum to restore to running condition as many historically or technically significant vehicles as was feasible.

The museum has the world's largest collection of armoured fighting vehicles and contains well over 880 vehicles, although the British Tank Museum has a larger number of tanks.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_des_Blindés

Email musee-des-blindes@orange.fr

Address Saumur 49400, France

Coordinates 47°14'35.452" N -0°4'18.593" E

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