PLA Tank Museum

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People's Liberation Army Tank Museum
中国人民解放军坦克博物馆
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Location within Beijing
EstablishedSeptember 1, 1990 (1990-09-01)
LocationWennan Rd, Yangfang City, Changping District, Beijing. Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Coordinates 40°09′43″N116°07′31″E / 40.161966°N 116.125293°E / 40.161966; 116.125293
Type Military museum

The PLA Tank Museum is a (currently inactive) military museum located in Changping district, Beijing. It is China's only specialist tank museum. [1] [2]

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Description

The Tank Museum was completed on 1 September 1990, originally named "People's Armored Forces Exhibition Hall", renamed to "Tank Museum" on 1 August 1997 after an expansion and reopening. At that time, the museum had a display surface of 5.3 ha in 11 exhibition halls. [3] It is located within the compound of unit 8837 of the PLAGF. [4]

At the entrance of the Tank Museum there is a Type 96 main battle tank.The museum exhibition is divided into three main sectors: the history of the PLA's armored forces, the history of the world's armored forces, and the physical exhibition of armored vehicles. [2] The museum exhibits 392 historical documents, 100 historical items, 2,000 photos, 50 tanks and armored vehicles, and 300 scale models of armored vehicles from across the world. [1]

Notable exhibits

China [5]

  1. Type 59 MBT
  2. Type 63 APC
  3. Type 63 Amphibious Tank
  4. Type 69
  5. WZ-111 Heavy tank
  6. Type 85 AFV
  7. Type 80 MBT
  8. Type 96 MBT

Soviet Union/Russia

  1. SU-76
  2. SU-100
  3. ISU-152
  4. T-34
  5. IS-2
  6. T-54/55

USA

  1. LVT(A)-4 Amphibious Boat
  2. M3/M5 Stuart

Japan

  1. Type 97 Chi-Ha
  2. Type 94 tankette

References

  1. 1 2 "坦克博物馆一日游：与钢铁战车的亲密接触" [A day tour in the Tank Museum: in close contact with steel combat vehicles]. www.81.cn China Military Network. 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  2. 1 2 Huang, Yanghai (2016-05-18). "中国坦克博物馆旅游攻略" [China Tank Museum visitor guide]. www.81.cn. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  3. ↑ 走进坦克博物馆 Archived 2013-11-12 at the Wayback Machine , 新华网.
  4. ↑ "男孩子的最爱 北京这几家博物馆必须去打卡". 千龙网. 2018-03-30. Archived from the original on 2018-08-12.
  5. ↑ "坦克大观". 坦克博物馆. Archived from the original on 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
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