Swiss Military Museum Full / Reuenthal

[Kuno]

Here the link to the website of this "double museum" and some photographs I had the chance to take today. The occassion was the official opening of an additional hall where tanks, guns and trucks are displayed. The photos are actually only dealing with this particular hall and not wth the other exhibitions of the museum.

 

That's the link:

 

http://www.festungsmuseum.ch/xml_2/internet/de/intro.cfm

 

Captions from top to down (as good as I know them):

 

1) Saurer 8x8 truck

2) OTM? Chech postwar copy of the German SdKfz.152

3) Row of Swiss tanks - Pz61 and Pz68 at the end a Centurion

4) Russian stuff

5) Schwimmwagen and Kuebelwagen

6) Pz68

7) Wrecker

8) German Spz (lang)

9) Renault

10) 37 mm PaK with AT rocket

11) BTR such & such

12) G13 (Swiss Hetzer)

13) Universal Carrier

14) T34/85

15) Swiss prototype sp gun

16) Swiss army trucks as Henschel, Saurer 330, FBW

17) French Hotchkiss 25mm AT gun

18) 88mm FlaK

19) Saurer 8x8

20) Howitzer

Edited April 11, 2010 by Kuno

[abn deuce]

Looks very good ,lets hope they attract enough visitors to support the expanded collection.Thanks for sharing the event Kuno .

[Jack]

Very nice - are the restorations as good as they look?

[Jack]

Starter for ten - name those vehicles!

[Tony B]

Definite addition to the 'Want to go there' list.

[martylee]

Very nice indeed! Switzerland has now been added to placec to visit! :-)

 

Please feel free to keep us updated and even add more photos if you want to!

Was it your family that run this museum?

 

Marty

[Kuno]

I have added the captions on top as good as I could. In fact, each vehicle has a plate in front of it, giving the principal data and the history of the particular vehicle.

[Kuno]

There were as well vehicles on display in front of the museum (which is located in the buildings of a abandoned chemical factory). Some of those vehicles belong to the museum, others wer presented by private persons:

[Kuno]

Historical displays of various groups (which as far as I know are not an integrated part of the museum):

[Kuno]

And some "live action" of the Swiss Army:

[Kuno]

Was it your family that run this museum?

 

Hi Marty; no, it is not my family who runs that museum. I am just living in the neighborhood. The museum is maintaied by an association.

[chevpol]

very nice collection, in a very nice country, must get back there soon

 

Mark

[Kuno]

Some of 2002:

[Kuno]

And some from 2006 (When they had occupied a bigger hangar):

[abn deuce]

Great Photo's !

[berna2vm]

This looks a fantastic museum!!! A place I should definately visit :-)....What is the small modern 4x4 vehicle that looks a little like a Fiat Campagnolo with a Saurer badge?

[Kuno]

THis 4x4? Atually it seems to me as it would be some sort of a prototype by Saurer. It was too big for the Fiat Campagnola. I had a numberplate so I guess somebody was even driving it. But nobody stood near to it so I could not ask about the history of the vehicle.

[Kuno]

Found it:

 

Prototype 288

Saurer jeep 1980, Model 288. The petrol engine comes from Volvo, the axles from the company Dana. The body is probable from Monteverdi, Binningen. Of it approx. 25 pcs were built. The vehicle was thought as substitution of the Willy' s CJ7 jeep and the Landrover. Then, however, a competitor received the order to supply the vehicles.

[berna2vm]

Thank you Kuno :-).