Kuno Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Looks very good ,lets hope they attract enough visitors to support the expanded collection.Thanks for sharing the event Kuno . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Very nice - are the restorations as good as they look? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Starter for ten - name those vehicles! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Definite addition to the 'Want to go there' list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martylee Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuno Posted April 11, 2010 Author Share Posted April 11, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuno Posted April 11, 2010 Author Share Posted April 11, 2010 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuno Posted April 11, 2010 Author Share Posted April 11, 2010 Historical displays of various groups (which as far as I know are not an integrated part of the museum): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuno Posted April 11, 2010 Author Share Posted April 11, 2010 And some "live action" of the Swiss Army: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuno Posted April 11, 2010 Author Share Posted April 11, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevpol Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 very nice collection, in a very nice country, must get back there soon Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuno Posted April 11, 2010 Author Share Posted April 11, 2010 Some of 2002: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuno Posted April 11, 2010 Author Share Posted April 11, 2010 And some from 2006 (When they had occupied a bigger hangar): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Great Photo's ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berna2vm Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuno Posted April 11, 2010 Author Share Posted April 11, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuno Posted April 11, 2010 Author Share Posted April 11, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berna2vm Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Thank you Kuno :-). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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