This Museum was crammed full of interesting exhibits, and I hope that the following blog entry gives some idea of the range and scope of what is on show. To make it easier to follow, I have split the coverage into several sections.
Ancient Cannons
Armour
The Napoleonic War
The Great War
Small Arms
Military head wear from around the world
Models of the Portuguese forts in Goa
Artillery models
Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque
Magazine Rifles and early Machine Guns
Very good range of photographs Bob!
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Jim Duncan,
ReplyDeleteI am pleased that you enjoyed seeing these photographs.
The Museum is well worth a visit, and I wish I had had more time to take even more photographs ... especially of the tile panels in the courtyard.
All the best,
Bob
I think you could produce that much needed guide book yourself from these. The canon in your photo 111 was one I remember being very impressed by.
ReplyDeleteSuperb photos Bob- really enjoyed them.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Pete.
Nigel Drury,
ReplyDeleteIt is a very large cannon ... and must have looked very impressive when it was fired.
If I had managed to get photos of the captions that went with each exhibit (something that I now regret not doing) I could easily have produced a detailed guide book.
Perhaps I will manage that task if I ever go back.
All the best,
Bob
Pete.,
ReplyDeleteI am pleased to see that you enjoyed my photos.
Be warned ... I also paid a visit to the Naval Museum in Cartagena and took lots of photographs there as well.
All the best,
Bob
Wow. What a collection.
ReplyDeleteConrad Kinch,
ReplyDeleteIf you ever go to Lisbon and have the time to go to the Museum, I thoroughly recommend that you go there. It is well worth visiting.
All the best,
Bob
What a splendid building indeed ,not to mention great photographs...
ReplyDeleteTradgardmastare,
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for your kind comments. If you ever get the chance, this a Museum is well worth visiting.
All the best,
Bob
Great Stuff Bob,
ReplyDeleteWhen I visited there last year there were only five visitors all day. All of us English.
The staff were extremely keen, but nobody spoke English to a great extent.
They were however paranoid about photography and would not allow it. So it was good to see your photographs.
There is however, an excellent guide book in English - details sent to you by email. I asked about it and secured the only copy - much to the chagrin of the others ;-). My copy is now available to view at Pile 'em High Towers and I will show it to you on your enxt visit.
Tone
Robertpeel999 (Tone),
ReplyDeleteIt is a great museum but it is not that well-known ... and it should be.
There were a few more visitors on the day that we went there ... but not that many more!
Trust you to get hold of the only copy of the English language edition of the museum's guide book! I look forward to seeing it at some time in the future.
All the best,
Bob
Looking at your photographs again, I was so pleased to see that you captured an image of my favourite exhibit of the bizarre and obscure.
ReplyDeleteYou have the Brazilian cavalry helmet with the yellow plume, and although not readily apparent in the phot, I was particularly taken by the red material dragon's tongue. The lighting is indeed poor, and you miss how 'yellow' both the helmet and plume are.
Ideal for any pantomime uniform or Imagination Elite Guard unit.
Huzzah!!
Thanks for the photos and the memories Bob
Robertpeel999,
ReplyDeleteIt is a truly magnificent piece of head gear ... and worthy of a comic opera/Funny Little Wars army.
All the best,
Bob