Play at war: children have done it for ages. Tin soldiers appear on the scene in Nuremberg in the 18th century. Over the years the military and later on also civil figurines have come to represent the heroes and foes of days past.
Tank exhibition and the documentation centre close
The Tank and the armored exhibition Hall will be closed until the 30th of Sep 10 by cause of infratucture works.
The documentation centre will be closed from Tuesday 7 September 2010 until Monday 20 September 2010.
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The exhibition was put together by the Royal Military Museum (RMM), in collaboration with the Royal Society of the Friends of the Military Museum and the Royal Museum for Central Africa.
The Royal Military Museum wins the "Children's Prize 2010" in a competition organised by OKV (Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen, a Flemish cultural organisation) !
Do you know why women fainted so easily some 150 years ago? Which Belgian king liked to pedal around on his tricycle? And if a chapska is a hat rather than a dog? Would you like to find the answers to these questions?.
In the early fifties a bloody war was fought on the Korean Peninsula between the North and the South. North Korea was aided by Chinese ‘Volunteers’, South Korea received help from a large international force sent by the United Nations.
