Museum «Motors of War». Axis

Besides the British, the Italians (who would have thought!) also distinguished themselves with the strange genius in military automobile manufacturing.

Initial report: Museum “Motors of War”. Introduction.

Previous report: Museum «Motors of War». Allies.

Moreover, if the Britons created (in relation to humans) human freaks, then the southerners created inhuman freaks.

Who doesn’t like the «bukhanka» design?

It’s impossible to tear yourself away from the tractor – it’s so huge and charmingly ugly. Its neighbor is not as huge, but the visual characteristics remain the same.

Although it cannot be said that they are all like that. There are plenty of normal or close to normal trucks.

And even the smaller cars are quite normal in appearance.

What they all have a problem with is the visibility of the exhibits: you can’t walk around them, you can’t look at them from all sides.

Another country in the opposite camp was Japan. On the day of my last visit, the museum was hosting a temporary exhibition about that country.

The display cases displayed all sorts of samurai and kamikaze items.

And other Japanese military items and attributes.

While the museum has a small number of tanks overall, it does have a Japanese Type 97 Chi-Ha.

This is a very fresh exhibit, one of the latest. The Japanese exhibits, like the country itself, are located in a remote area, on a small patch of land.

This is a pair of motorcycles

(I hope I identified them correctly) and a truck.

On one of the visits there was also a small Kurogane Type 95,

but last time he wasn’t there.

To be continued: Museum «Motors of War». Cars of Germany.