Hey, this is going to become a list of firearms related museums across the world it’ll will be linked in the side bar.
I haven’t attended all, or even most, of these museums but the intention is to include museums that have a small arms collection. The museum may have a broader focus such as world history.
If there’s any museums you know comment them and I’ll add them below. This is and will likely always be an incomplete list.
If you don’t know any museums but you don’t see your country represented let me know and we’ll see if we can’t find one to add.
I don’t speak every language so that means I might have a hard time finding the official sites for some museums, if you manage to find one I didn’t let me know and I’ll change it.
Africa
Egypt 🇪🇬
Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Kenya 🇰🇪
South Africa 🇿🇦
Tanzania 🇹🇿
Asia
China 🇨🇳
- Military History Museum, Beijing
Japan 🇯🇵
Russia 🇷🇺
Singapore 🇸🇬
- Army Museum, Singapore
South Korea 🇰🇷
Vietnam 🇻🇳
- Military and War Museum, Ho Chi Minh
Europe
Austria 🇦🇹
Belgium 🇧🇪
- Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels
Croatia 🇭🇷
- Muzej Policije, Zagreb
Finland 🇫🇮
France 🇫🇷
Germany 🇩🇪
Ireland 🇮🇪
Italy 🇮🇹
- Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, TN
Malta 🇲🇹
- Malta Time-Gun Museum, Valletta
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Poland 🇵🇱
Romania 🇷🇴
Spain 🇪🇸
Sweden 🇸🇪
Ukraine 🇺🇦
- Baturyn Historic and Cultural Reserve - Museum of Hetmancy, Chernihiv
- Lviv Arsenal, Lviv
- National Museum-Preserve of Ukrainian Military Achievements, Kyiv
UK 🇬🇧
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Imperial War Museum, London
- National Army Museum, London
- Royal Armories, Leeds + Portsmouth
North America
Canada 🇨🇦
Cuba 🇨🇺
Mexico 🇲🇽
US 🇺🇲
- Cody Firearms, WY
- Gene Autry Museum of the American West, CA
- JM Davis Arms and Historical Museum, OK
- John M. Browning Firearms Museum, UT
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
- Museum of Connecticut History (Colt Collection), CT
- NRA Museums, MO + VA + NM
- Springfield National Armory, MA
- Shooter’s Outpost, NH
- Smithsonian Museum of American History, DC
South America
Argentina 🇦🇷
Chile 🇨🇱
Paraguay 🇵🇾
Peru 🇵🇪
- Museo del Ejército, Lima
Uruguay 🇺🇾
Oceania
Australia 🇦🇺
Armémuseum, the Army Museum in Stockholm in Sweden does have a relatively large exhibit of guns. There is even a collection of war bounty cannons from Denmark on display outside.
Eskilstuna Stadsmuseum - Eskilstuna City Museum, has a collection of bayonets, swords, crossbows, spears, firearms, canons and machine guns with a special focus on weapons made in Eskilstuna.
I will also add Flygvapenmuseum in Linköping, it may not be handguns, but the Swedish Air Force museum is an excellent museum, showing off some truly unique artifacts like, the DC3 that was shot down by the Soviet Union over international waters in the Baltic while performing signals intelligence against them, several SAAB jet fighters, like Tunnan, Lansen, Draken, Viggen, Gripen and SK60, there are exhibits about Sweden and the cold war, flight simulators, futuristic architecture from 1968 used in the Swedish Air Force, and more. Highly recommended.
Thanks! I added the first two but for the sake of keeping the list short I’m going to try and limit the list to museums with a small arms collection. If I include every aviation, naval, or armor museum it’ll be a lot more work. But I haven’t been to Flygvapenmuseum, so if it does actually have at least a section dedicated to firearms or munitions I’ll add it.
I did check out pictures of Flygvapenmuseum though and it looks very nice!
Perfectly understandable, thank you for your work with the list.