Virtual Tour: Austrian Museum of Military History
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0:00 - Introduction
02:30 - 17th Century hall
06:12 - 18th/19th Century hall
09:29 - World War One hall
17:13 - World War Two hall
20:24 - Naval history area
I recently had a chance to visit the Austrian Museum of Military History, and figured it would be nice to film a tour for the channel. The museum is in Vienna (the address is actually "Arsenal 1") and is one of the oldest continuously-operating military museums in Europe. There are four main galleries, and while they have a lot of very good sub-collections I think the real strength of the museum is the World War One section.
A few of the highlights include:
- Perhaps the best collection extant of 17th century Turkish arms
- A 380mm WW1 siege gun
- Girandoni air rifle and it's air pump
- WW1 compressed-air mortars
- Salvatore-Dormus machine guns, and several Villar Peruses
- Artifacts from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, including his car and uniform and three of Princip's groups' FN 1910 pistols
If you are in Vienna, it is definitely a museum worth stopping in to see! I am looking forward to a future visit myself to see the new World War Two exhibits, which are expected to open in 2024.
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I had e-mailed the HGM directly a few months ago while researching a uniform impression to compliment my Werndl M1867. A curator was kind enough to send me photos of the 1878 Infantry Regiment No. 4 uniform on display in Franz Joseph hall, along with some suggested reading materials. Thanks to their help I was able to procure a correct replica cartridge box and several other uniform components. I will always be grateful for their assistance, and it is my dream to someday visit them in person. You have no idea how happy this video makes me.
You can catch a glimpse of the uniform at 10:44 - in the front section of the display case to the right! The large leather cartridge box and 'feldflasche' canteen are clearly visible.
Ian: “There’s a hand grenade crossbow”
Me: “wait, what?”
Ian: anyway moving on
I too want that video.
@@IHavAnAkimbonr Nice
Meanwhile in a parallel universe. "And here we are on the range... how about a mag dump? How many grenades do we have?"
Also casually passes by a WWII jet engine @19:50
Ian did a little "and there's a hand grenade crossbow" drive-by which will probably send me down a research rabbit hole for the rest of the weekend.
I think he owes it to us to disassemble one of these on a table and fire it at the range 😉
May this information be useful to you:
La arbalète la Sauterelle type A.
Trench crossbow.
Can’t find the designation for that particular model. So far as I can determine it wasn’t made to a pattern. That model might have been made at the front in a workshop.
Wow that was spectacular
Battlefield 1 had these as a gadget. Quite fun to use.
As soon as you mentioned the mobile electric generator I instantly thought, "Ferdinand Porsche's work all day long."
Only if they still had it. Then they could have send back to Porsche for a service :)
Correct...his work with the Lohner-Porche design, etc....I had the same initial feeling that he might say "Porsche" and he did.
I’ve been there twice - well worth visiting! Ian is right: the WWII collection is disjointed. The WWI collection is phenomenal and you could easily spend a whole day going through it if looking at things in detail. Don’t burn yourself out on the upper floors before heading downstairs to the world war exhibits. If you have a backpack or bags put them in the self-serve lockers near the entrance - it’ll be tiring hauling them around all day. Also a lunch break in the café is good idea.
Ian doesn’t mention it but there’s a tank park out back and old artillery pieces scattered around outside.
Yep, I remember 4 units, really beautiful pieces, it amazed me were not bandalized. Nice people the Austrians
aren‘t there also some aircraft outside? right infront of the museum?
@@alexanderwurfel8657 Not that I remember and I don’t see any on Google street views, but maybe they were there at some other point in time.
@@OldManAndTheSeaOfTooManyCats I think there are 2 SAAB Fighters, mybe even a drakken.
@@alexanderwurfel8657 👍 Thanks! I hope to get back to Vienna and check it out.
This feels surreal I was there 2 weeks ago and thought how Ian would appreciate this collection. And now there is a video of Ian at the HGM.
And I talked about my visit yesterday with my friends.😁
THIS HAPPENED TO ME. I WAS THERE TODAY I SWEAR! I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING OH MY GOD
same
This museum is a gem if a bit separated from the action of Vienna. It's lovely to see so many Steyr Hahns, real historic uniforms of the Austrian Empire and not to mention all the beautiful flags
Those cutaway ship models! And for this old para being able to get a close look at the RZ type parachute rig was terrific (Thats one rig I would NOT want to jump lol)
The flags were something that blew my mind. As an American, it's a little odd to see European items that are older than the establishment of your own country.
@@bryanewyatt to be fair, Austria is younger than most of the things in that museum
TH-cam daring to put a "context" fact-checker banner on FW's video is peak hubris.
I got to see that place in 2009 while my sister in law and her husband were living in Vienna. SOOOO cool! Seeing Archduke Ferdinand's car so close up I could nearly put my fingers through the bullet holes in the door was surreal.
With the 480p resolution, it's almost as if I'm seeing the museum in 2009, too! =)
Yeah, this museum has entered my bucket list just to be up close to this car.
@@jubuttib Have a feeling it's YT playing games as it's not the first one. Grrrrrr
at around 3:30 - if you go left from there, there's a letter in the showcase from the 30 years war from General Wallenstein to Pappenheim, ordering Pappenheim to "come to battle at once", and the letter is stained in the blood of Pappenheim.
I guess 30years war is unfamilar to most Americans
Being originally from Austria, we got herded through the halls during the 70s while in High School. I visited several times since and experienced the various changes in their exhibits and displays. I haven’t been back in 10 years and I wanted to thank you for showing the current version. What a great walk down memory lane and I am glad they continue to update the museum. Can’t wait to make it back soon!
God this architecture is stunning. Never had the chance to visit Vienna before unfortunately but it's definitely in my list.
It is, and fascinating that they built the floor strong enough to put artillery pieces on!
The architecture across Vienna is stunning and worth the trip. Many palaces and beautiful buildings like the Opera house to visit.
Vienna is a lovely city. Well worth a visit.
If you're in Europe, you should swing by Brussels to visit the Musée Royal de l'Armée et d'Histoire Militaire
at the Cinquentenaire. My father used to work there and we still know the guy responsible for the firearmes collection. We could arrange something cool.
He's been there I think. And I agree that place is great. Better than Liege, although both are worth a visit.
@@CandidZulu Ah, I must have missed that video.
I went on a rather long walk one day while I was studying in Vienna and accidentally came across this, what is easily one of the 3 best museums I've ever been to. Kudos Austrians
Holy shit Ian, what is the educational and career path I need to follow to have a lifestyle like that?
Edit: also, dudes who run this museum: If you were worried that an online visit will reduce numbers, I had never heard of this place and now I am fascinated by it and want to visit in person. Thank you from Canada.
Not only this museum is great there are lots of museum in Vienna and buildings worth a visit!
I've been there. For me the big draw was the medieval arms and armor collection, which you undersold a bit - it's one of the two or three largest national collections in in the world, with the Tower of London perhaps foremost among its rivals..
I would add Dresden rustkammer to that list. And for early modern, Graz armoury
The stuff he showed on the 2nd floor was Renaissance, not Medieval.
@@Voyager2525 I've been in that room and seen the artifacts myself. While it's a matter of interpretation whether some of them are late medieval or early Renaissance, there it's plenty of stuff like that chain mail corselet that he panned over it was made too much older patterns.
@@ericraymond3734 Gotcha. I was commenting based on what he showed, and, chainmail aside, the armor displayed was definitely 1500's-1600's (i.e. Renaissance)
The virtual tours are always such an amazing treat. Thank you, Ian. Highly appreciated. :)
Would love to see more videos like this. My favorite part of traveling in Europe is seeing these incredible collections of rare pieces. Ian you should do this kind of video at all the museums you visit
Yes ian if you read that please do that
The long sword is used by the Winged Hussars of Poland -used like a lance on horseback. The winged hussars were part of the relief force led by John Sobeski that relived Vienna from the Turks.Thanks for the tour.
Que the Sabaton song...
Thanks. I wanted to say the same.
Just an addendum, this type of sword or estoc is called a 'koncerz', and isn't use for penetrating plate, but rather getting between the plates and penetrating mail armor, which was still a very common type of armor of the era, especially by the Ottoman Turks.
@@matztertaler2777
Filmtitel?
Thank you, I was going to say the same thing.
This looks like a great museum. Ian's tour videos keep adding to my bucket list.
I really enjoy these museum walk-throughs!
Cool stuff Ian!
I live in Vienna.
My friends and I were about 11 years old at the time. (1977)
When we were bored, we visited various museums, such as the "Museum of Military History." (HGM)
The history and the weapons fascinated us.
Love this content ! Informative and entertaining as always.
What an awesome museum. Great that they let you film in the museum. Thank you for sharing this.
The Swedish Air Force Museum has an Austrian Phönix D.III 222 from WW1 on display which is an Austrian WW1 fighter.
I think we have some Saabs on Display somewhere aswell xD
Austrian planes in sweden and swedish planes is Austria
I have visited that museum, and like Vienna in general it is incredibly ornate. There is also an armory in Graz that is a museum now. Also definitely worth a visit. Austrians do embrace their history. Well, maybe not parts of the 20th century.
The Graz armory is incredible! Hundreds of sets of armor, sabers, pikes, and match lock rifles set up as if ready for the Turks to invade again.
One of the things I thought was sad when Joakim was doing an episode of Sabaton History he said they had issues with the Caroles Rex album because their government considers any material related to that period of Swedish history to be right wing extremist. Tell me your country is cucked without telling me its cucked.
@@Specter044 I think that it was. They just stopped issuing the gear and after a while turned it into a museum.
I remember the virtual tour guide thing and going into the hall of heroes..... what was mentioned about ww2 definitely made me know it was a really touchy subject.
@@moone924 We ought to figure that any historic subject will be touchy if there are still survivors of the period.
Something Zane Grey encountered when he was writing the book "Pleasant Valley War" "eyewitness'" who were partisan then will carry their grudges now.
Example, how would you like to try writing an unbiased book about Clinton or Trump ?
It will be a lot easier to seperate fact from rhetoric when we're all dead.
Thank you Ian. I have been to the Danish and Swedish military museums, but can no longer travel due to age. It is nice to be able to see other museums thru your eyes and camera.
Thanks for this museum visit. A truly amazing collection.
That is very nice looking museum, thanks for sharing it with us Ian.
This is awsome, would love to see more videos like this!
Haven't been to many museums around the world, but this was coolest museum I've ever been to. When I think of Austria, I think of the Hapsburgs not WW2, so that's the history I was looking for going in. I agree with Ian, the WW2 section was light but I didn't mind. In fact it kind of felt somewhat out of place there. To me the building felt like a shrine to the Hapsburg's time of rule and personally I won't have minded them ending the museum history at 1918 and having a separate building for WW2. Definitely worth going to if you find yourself in Vienna.
Hi Ian,
great to see you admiring the Heeregeschichtliche Museum. It's my favorite museum and worth a visit every few years, they redecorate and enhance their exhibition.
Where other museums have weapons, flags and uniforms, the HGM has over and above that lots of personal items/relics from Prinz Eugen, Wallenstein, Napoleon, from an osman Pascha, Franz Ferdinand (as you have shown) and others. This makes a change for me from an generic exhibition to histoy, I can grasp literally with my hands ;)
They have also the best slogan I'm aware of: Kriege gehören ins Museum / wars belong in the museum.
I also like the bavarian military museum in Ingolstadt, both bring in their local specialties, which are really interesting and get lost on most publications about the different times. ;)
These are my favorite videos...places I will likely never be able to visit. The earlier video on the French museum with the models for sieges was amazing. The building interior and artifacts in this video are gorgeous.
I love videos like this Ian. It would be awesome to visit a museum like this but I'll settle for a tour from you.
Consider doing more tours, for those of us too immobile to visit these gems!
The long sword at 5:20 was actually used by the cavalry, to reach foot soliders, instead a lance during a short period in the 17th century. Was part of the saddle set.
I've been there couple years back, met some American guys there and we were discussing forgotten weapons and we were hopping for someone like Ian to explain some square holes on some bayonets.
Also don't get very close to Franz ferdinand's car for the holes closeups, I've accidentally set up the alarm system without touching anything.
Good to know there is something in place when most of us have seen what some people do to historical artefacts.
Great tour Ian! Cant wait to visit in person!
love these kinds of videos. thank you!
Thank you so much for this, as I will likely never get to see this in person. Very much appreciated
I like that they have a section for Austria's naval history. That Uboat conning tower is a particularly interesting item.
Very cool. Thank you Ian for that over view. Always interesting to see museums of places we might never have a chance to get to. CHEERS.
Wow cool and different museum. Thanks for the different type of video! Added to my list of places to visit!
What a wonderful virtual tour, thanks a whole lot for sharing!
Very nice quick tour. Visited there in 2018 and was impressed. Thanks for the trip back.
Appreciate museum tours immensely
Interesting to re-visit this museum through your virtual tour. Some of the displays haven't changed a bit from when I saw them in person 20 years ago. I want to go back and see this excellent museum again thanks to your video!
Hi Ian, welcome to my adopted hometown! Great tour and its a great museum. The WW1 exhibit was incredible.
Thank you for this video and your explanation! It is truly amazing!
Great program. Thanks for the introduction to what looks like a fabulous museum.
It is also everything is in German language
Does that mean we have Steyr factory private tour content coming?!
Nice little insight into Austrian history.. And a little different FW video as well.
I'm afraid I can't resist a plug though, but if you enjoy military historical fiction try the series 'A Sailor of Austria' by John Biggins. Well written & well researched, humorous while not shying away from the darker aspects of history and all-in-all a good read. Gives you an insight into the joys of commanding a World War One submarine with a crew of fifteen who between themselves speak eleven different languages . . .
Anyway, plug over. Thank you to Ian for a cool little video.
Awesome vid! More of these wouod be awesome!
Thanks for the tour. I could have watched it for hours.
Fascinating! Thank you Ian!👍
Amazing tour, thanks for sharing
Both times that I went to Vienna I saw this museum, and ever since I have been waiting for a forgotten weapons video on it.
I have visited this museum many times - nevertheless I really enjoyed the walk with you, Ian - excellent summary 👍 !
Thank you. That is a beautyful palace and such a good rare collection.
I've been there some 10+ years ago.Thanx for the reminder to visit Viena again soon!
The Armory in the *Hofburg* is also very interesting!
I was there in 2019 missed that sadly. But the treasurey in the Hofburg is amazing aswell
God tier content! I love your museum videos.
I used to go to loads of museums on trips and I always loved it, haven't gone since corona and this really made me want to book a trip again
Magnificent building. Looks like it's worth visiting just to admire floors and windows alone. Thanks for sharing! Vienna is gorgeous indeed.
Thanks Ian, this is so cool!
One of the things I love about Forgotten Weapons is that it gives me a glimpse of the world outside of my Americano-centric gun and military culture. Ian, you do an amazing job of broadening people's perspectives.
If you ever got chance to visit Vienna, you should visit this museum also everything is in german language explained only
I've been there a few times, but it was a long time ago. After seeing your video, I'm planning to go again. Best regards from Vienna.
4:55 - Sword seems to be a Koncerz, primarilty associated with the Polish-Lithuanian Hussars of the Renaissance, and is 51"-55"
That is correct. It is basically a back up lance for when you real one breaks but it can also be used in a melee unlike a lance.
Confused why they didn't make the handle long enough to give you the option to wield it both handed.
@@DerOrk Because wielding a weapon two-handed on horseback gets awkward. The Horse's neck and rump get in the way of a lot of guards and attacks. Also the Koncerz is a thrusting weapon.
I toured that museum 4 years ago and I was very impressed. Good to see it again.
Ian, I just went to this museum today. I think it's fair to say you slightly undersold the experience. Thank you for the recommendation.
Wow! Amazing collection.
Woah I really want to visit this place! Thanks Ian!
Quality content as always 👌
Awesome Vid. Would love to see a lot more from there.
Vienna is a remarkably beautiful city and the museum wasn't an exception. Frankly the whole place made me feel thankful that they had all the money, as I can only imagine how freakishly expensive it must have been to build all that stuff that we can still enjoy.
Awesome Ian! Thanks!!!
First time an tour of an museum from the weapons you done
That was awesome! Thank you.
Very interesting Ian, thank you!!
Have been there three times and will be there again on June 11th. Great museum with very interesting items in the collection!
This is a really nice review of the museum.
I'd love to see the WW2 Hall after they have finished reworking it.
One of the finest museums I've ever been to, I visited during the 100 years anniversary exhibition for WW1 from 2014-2018, I visited in 2018.
Amazing.
Hi Ian. I just love your content and would like to see more museum tours whenever you get a chance. I'll be visiting Vienna this summer and I'll definitely go there. By the way, I'd like to recommend the crime museum in Vienna its really fascinating little museum. All the best and keep up the absolutely fantastic work you've been doing. Cheers. Eran.
Definitely do more of these
I was able to spend a couple days in Vienna in 2019 while travelling for work, and this museum was my first stop. The WWI collection left a strong impression, particularly the juxtaposition of the Brownings in the Franz Ferdinand room, versus the colossal anti-fortress artillery a room or two over that a few shots from those little pistols led to.
Goodness sakes alive! how fortunate you are Ian! Thank you very much....More, More!!
God damnit! I love this channel!!!!
Visited here three years ago and was most pleasantly surprised! Great early artillery collection housed in out buildings. Missed the armored vehicle collection which was closed to the public at the time. Hopefully you got (or will get) to the Landeszeughaus in Graz!
Ian, you absolutely MUST visit the armoury in Graz! We went there recently and I regret not dedicating longer to it, don't miss out!
You can stay a whole day in this museum and you will still find after many visits something new...even if you try to study all the paintings you have a full day to spend...It´s really amazing...
One of the best military museums in the world. Arch Duke Ferdinand’s car & blood stained uniform are there. (Haven’t finished video if Ian highlighted). Highly recommend when in Vienna!
aaaaaaaah drooling, Wienna's Arsenal; one of the best 6 hours I ever spent
I worked there Last summer restoring all sorts of firearms and equipment.
Awesome you visited the HGM
the thing that impressed me the most when I visited was the highly detailed ship models. (with cut open cross sections)
I've not visited but my parents have when they went to Austria so its on a bucket list for the far future. Love the museum visits you do as for a lot of us, hasn't been a lot of traveling for the last few years and if nothing else its worth it for the art and architecture alone.
I was able to visit this museum several years ago (2018). I spent the better part of a day there, much to my wife's dismay. I has planned on going back, but European travel has gotten much more expensive. I had a local cop who was able to act as a tour guide. He was former military, and was invaluable in his knowledge of everything there. This is one of my favorite museums of all time. There are a bunch of vehicles in a separate building from the main museum that I geeked out over.
If I ever get back to Austria I know where I’m going.
This may be one of my fav FW episodes ever
One of my favourite museums!
I just went there today because of this video. I was already going to Vienna, so I added this museum to the list!
I definitely want to go see after seeing this, thank you
That is without a doubt.The coolest military museum I’ve ever seen!
That was very interesting. Thanks.