Qualla: The Tank Museum https://qualla.com/the-tank-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:21 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/2/the-tank-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Tank Museum https://qualla.com/the-tank-museum The Tank Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-tank-museum/ Photo credit Louise M Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0. It started with Rudyard Kipling and a pile of damaged tanks. In 1923, the author visited Bovington Camp in Dorset and saw the battered vehicles that had been salvaged from the Western Front. He recommended that someone set up a museum. A shed was found. The collection grew. It was not opened to the public until 1947, by which point a second world war had contributed substantially more material. Today the Tank Museum at Bovington holds nearly three hundred armoured vehicles, making it the largest collection of its kind on earth.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/2/the-tank-museum-wp/gcn2-the-tank-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Tank Museum: From Shed to Shrine https://qualla.com/the-tank-museum/ Photo credit Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The museum's collection spans the entire history of mechanised armoured warfare, beginning with its very origins. Little Willie, the ungainly prototype that preceded the first operational tanks, sits alongside the Mark I, the world's oldest surviving combat tank. The progression ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/2/the-tank-museum-wp/gcn2-the-tank-museum-from-shed-to-shrine.mp3 0:06 2 full The Tank Museum: Tiger 131 https://qualla.com/the-tank-museum/ Photo credit Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The museum's most famous resident is Tiger 131, a German Tiger I captured in Tunisia in April 1943. It is the only Tiger I in the world still capable of running under its own power, fully restored to operational condition by the workshops at Bovington. The Tiger was the most fear...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/2/the-tank-museum-wp/gcn2-the-tank-museum-tiger-131.mp3 0:06 3 full The Tank Museum: A Museum That Conquered YouTube https://qualla.com/the-tank-museum/ Photo credit Louise M Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0. In January 2010, the museum launched a YouTube channel with modest ambitions: staff members talking to camera about specific tanks, often in single takes. The series "Tank Chats," led by historian David Fletcher, became unexpectedly popular. By April 2023, the channel had surpass...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/2/the-tank-museum-wp/gcn2-the-tank-museum-a-museum-that-conquered-youtube.mp3 0:06 4 full The Tank Museum: Beyond the Museum Walls https://qualla.com/the-tank-museum/ Photo credit Louise M Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Tank Museum has found relevance far beyond historical preservation. During the Russo-Ukrainian War, the museum provided blueprints and track samples of Soviet-era equipment to Cook Defence Systems, enabling the manufacture of replacement tracks for Ukrainian forces. The Royal...

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