Museo de Armas de la Nación / National Museum of Armaments (Buenos Aires)
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National Museum of Armaments (Museo de Armas de la Nación), Argentina's most important military museum, occupies part of monumental neo-Renaissance Pay Palace (Palacio Paz) in the Buenos Aires historic centre...
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Date Posted: 01/10/2016
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National Museum of Armaments (Museo de Armas de la Nación), Argentina's most important military museum, occupies part of monumental neo-Renaissance Pay Palace (Palacio Paz) in the Buenos Aires historic centre.
Argentina's most important military museum, opened in 1941, includes 15 rooms where its collection is divided chronologically and by country of origin. Its oldest pieces include a chain mail armor belonging to the Byzantine Emperor Comnenus (c. 1100), crossbows, maces, two-handed swords, flails and other weapons dating from the Crusades, and an arquebuse used during the Battle of Aguere in Spain. The museum also houses a large collection of banners and weapons dating from the Argentine War of Independence, including a locally-modified Mauser rifle prized at the time for its durability, as well as a modern artillery section tracing the development of the early machine gun during the 19th century.
The library is reserved for the association's members and for researchers, though the military museum is open to the public and the Paz Palace itself can be visited through guided tours. [excerpted from Wiki].