The Tank Museum Bovington

Bovington, GB

The Tank Museum at Bovington is the world's largest collection of armoured vehicles, housing more than 300 tanks spanning the entire history of armoured warfare from the First World War through the present day. The collection includes the only working example of a **World War One Mark I male tank**, as well as significant numbers of **Second World War vehicles** from all major combatant nations — British Matilda and Churchill infantry tanks, American Shermans, Soviet T-34s, and a unique selection of captured German armour including a **Tiger I**, a **Panther**, and a **King Tiger (Tiger II)**. The museum sits adjacent to Bovington Camp, where the Royal Tank Regiment has been based since 1916. During the Second World War, Bovington served as a training ground for British armoured crews who would go on to fight in North Africa, Italy, and Northwest Europe. The museum's Tiger I tank, captured in Tunisia in 1943, is the only running Tiger I in existence and is among the most prized exhibits of any military museum in the world. The WWII collection covers every major armoured theatre from **Operation Crusader** in the Western Desert to the **Battle of Normandy** and the Rhine Crossing.