The Tank Museum

The Tank Museum

The Tank Museum
Location of the Tank Museum within Dorset
Established	1947
Location	Bovington, Dorset England
Coordinates	50°41′43″N 2°14′37″W / 50.695194°N 2.243611°W / 50.695194; -2.243611
Type	Military Museum
Public transit access	Wool railway station
Website	www.tankmuseum.org

The Tank Museum (previously the Bovington Tank Museum) is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Wool and 12 miles (19 km) west of the major port of Poole. The collection traces the history of the tank. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the largest collection of tanks and the third largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world.^{[Note 1]} It includes Tiger 131, the only working example of a German Tiger I tank, and a British First World War Mark I, the world's oldest surviving combat tank. It is the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment and the Royal Armoured Corps and is a registered charity.^[1]

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