The Swedish Tank Museum Arsenalen (Försvarsfordonsmuseet Arsenalen) is a museum specializing in armoured fighting vehicles that opened on 17 June 2011. It is located about 6 km from

Strängnäs Strängnäs is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Strängnäs Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 15,363 inhabitants in 2020. It is located by Lake Mälaren and is the episcopal see of the Diocese of Strängnäs, one of t ...

, Södermanland, Sweden. There are 75 vehicles on site in the museum and the museum owns 375 vehicles. The Museum is operated by a private, non-profit foundation.

Exhibits

The Vehicle Hall is the main building containing vehicles, simulator, Figure Museum, and temporary exhibits.

Vehicles

Vehicles at the museum include: * Stridsvagn m/21-29 * Renault NC-31 * T-37A *

Panzer I The Panzer I was a light tank produced by Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Its name is short for ( German for " armored fighting vehicle mark I"), abbreviated as . The tank's official German ordnance inventory designation was '' Sd.Kfz. 101 ...

* Stridsvagn fm/31 *

Stridsvagn m/31 Landsverk L-10 (Swedish Army designation: ''stridsvagn m/31'', abbr. ''strv m/31'', "tank model-1931") was a Swedish late interwar era medium tank constructed by AB Landsverk for the Swedish Army between 1930 and 1933. The tank had an advanced d ...

Stridsvagn m/37 ''Stridsvagn'' m/37 (Strv m/37) was a Swedish-built version of the Czechoslovak ČKD AH-IV tankette. History The AH-IV was popular with Romania and Iran, and after a successful demonstration to Swedish authorities, during winter conditions in ...

* Stridsvagn m/38 * Stridsvagn m/40L *

Stridsvagn m/41 Stridsvagn m/41 (Strv m/41) was a Swedish medium tank. A license-built version of the Czechoslovak Panzer 38(t), TNH medium tank, it served into the 1950s. History Since 1937, the Swedish army had been interested in the Czechoslovakian TNH tank. ...

Stridsvagn m/42 Stridsvagn m/42 (Strv m/42) was a Swedish medium tank in service in the World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of ...

T-34 The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank from World War II. When introduced, its 76.2 mm (3 in) tank gun was more powerful than many of its contemporaries, and its 60-degree sloped armour provided good protection against Anti-tank warfare, ...

* Sherman Vc Firefly *

Centurion In the Roman army during classical antiquity, a centurion (; , . ; , or ), was a commander, nominally of a century (), a military unit originally consisting of 100 legionaries. The size of the century changed over time; from the 1st century BC ...

T-55 The T-54 and T-55 tanks are a series of Soviet medium tanks introduced in the years following the Second World War. The first T-54 prototype was completed at Nizhny Tagil by the end of 1945.Steven Zaloga, T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tanks 1944–2 ...

Stridsvagn 74 Stridsvagn 74 (strv 74) is a Swedish light tank in use with the Swedish Army from 1958 to 1984. It was a modification of the older stridsvagn m/42 medium tank, which was phased out of service in the early 1950s. Instead of scrapping the vehicl ...

Stridsvagn 103 The Stridsvagn 103 (Strv 103), also known as the Alternative S and S-tank, is a Sweden, Swedish Cold War, Cold War-era main battle tank, designed and manufactured in Sweden. "Strv" is the Swedish military abbreviation of ''stridsvagn'', Swedish f ...

T-72M1 The T-72 is a family of Soviet main battle tanks that entered production in 1973. The T-72 was a development based on the T-64 using thought and design of the previous Object 167M. About 25,000 T-72 tanks have been built, and refurbishment has ...

Infanterikanonvagn 91 The infanterikanonvagn 91 (ikv 91), , was a high mobility assault gun that was developed to meet the operational requirements of the Swedish Army. It was designed and manufactured by Hägglund & Söner (whose military vehicle business is now B ...

* Stridsvagn 104 * Leopard 2K * Stormartillerivagn m/43 * Infanterikanonvagn 103 * Bandkanon 1 * StuG III *

Marder II The ''Marder'' II ("marten" in English) was a German tank destroyer of World War II based on the Panzer II chassis. There were two versions, the first mounted a modified Soviet 7.62 cm gun firing German ammunition, while the other mounted the ...

* Jagdpanzer 38(t) "Hetzer" * Pansarvärnskanonvagn m/43 * Pansarbil fm/29 * Pansarbil m/31 *

Pansarbil m/39 The Landsverk Lynx was a series of Swedish 4x4 armoured cars developed by AB Landsverk just prior to World War II. In Danish service it was designated as ''PV M39'', in Swedish service as ''pansarbil m/39'' (''pbil m/39''), or ''pansarbil m/40' ...

M8 Greyhound The M8 light armored car is a 6×6 armored car produced by the Ford Motor Company during World War II. It was used from 1943 by United States and British forces in Europe and the Pacific until the end of the war. The vehicle was widely exported ...

* Terrängbil m/42 (KP-bil) *

Ferret armoured car The Ferret armoured car, also commonly called the Ferret scout car, is a British armoured fighting vehicle designed and built for reconnaissance purposes. The Ferret was produced between 1952 and 1971 by the UK company Daimler. It was widely us ...

Humvee The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV; colloquial: Humvee) is a family of Military light utility vehicle, light, four-wheel drive Military vehicle#Military trucks, military trucks and utility vehicles produced by AM General. It ...

* Luftvärnskanonvagn fm/43 * Luftvärnsrobotbandvagn 701 *

Universal Carrier The Universal Carrier, a development of the earlier Bren Gun Carrier from its light machine gun armament, was one of a family of light armoured tracked vehicles built by Vickers-Armstrongs and other companies. The first carriers – the Br ...

M113 The M113 is a fully tracked armored personnel carrier (APC) that was developed and produced by the FMC Corporation. The M113 was sent to United States Army Europe in 1961 to replace the mechanized infantry's M59 APCs. The M113 was first used ...

Pansarbandvagn 301 Pansarbandvagn 301 (pbv 301), meaning roughly ''armoured tracked carrier vehicle 301'', was a Swedish infantry fighting vehicle () used by the Swedish Army. It was designed to carry a squad of 8 fully armed panzergrenadiers () into battle and pro ...

Pansarbandvagn 302 Pansarbandvagn 302 (pbv 302), meaning roughly ''armoured tracked carrier vehicle 302'', is a Swedish high-mobility infantry fighting vehicle () used by the Swedish Army from 1966 to 2014. The vehicle was commissioned by the Swedish Army in 1961 a ...

* Bandvagn 208 *

Ford Model T The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first mass-affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. Th ...

* Kübelwagen *

Willys MB The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S. Army truck, ton, 4×4, command reconnaissance, commonly known as the Willys Jeep, Jeep, or jeep, and sometimes referred to by its List of U.S. military vehicles by supply catalog des ...

* Volvo TPV * Volvo TP21 *

Trabant Trabant () is a series of B-segment, small cars produced from 1957 until 1991 by former East Germany, East German car manufacturer HQM Sachsenring GmbH, VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau. Four models were made: the Trabant P 50, Trabant 50 ...

Alvis Stalwart The Stalwart, formally classified by the British Army as Truck, High Mobility Load Carrier (HMLC), 5 Ton, 6 x 6, Alvis Stalwart and informally known by servicemen as the Stolly, and by former RCT as the Stally, is a highly mobile amphibious ...

* Pansarvärnspjästerrängbil 9031

References

External links

Swedish Tank Museum Arsenalen website (English)
Tank museums Museums in Södermanland County Military and war museums in Sweden Strängnäs Municipality 2011 establishments in Sweden 21st-century establishments in Södermanland County {{Sweden-museum-stub