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Military Technical Museum Lešany (Czech: Vojenské technické muzeum Lešany) is a museum of military vehicles located in Lešany in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It is part of the Military History Institute Prague together with Kbely Aviation Museum and Army Museum Žižkov . [ 1 ]
It was opened in 2004. Expositions of the museum are focused on aircraft and vehicles of the Czechoslovak army between years 1945 and 1992. As of 31 December 2019, the Piešťany Museum Department registered 9,272 collection items in the collection fund, which are part of 22 museum collections. [1] [2] [3]
A preserved fence with watchtower near Čížov (2009). The protection of borders between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) and several of the capitalist countries of Western Europe, namely with West Germany and Austria, in the Cold War era and especially after 1951, was provided by special troops of the Pohraniční Stráž (English: the Border Guard) and a system of engineer ...
These institutions vary in their scope and focus, with some museums dedicated to a specific national or regional context and chronicling the military history of a particular country or region, while other museums may concentrate on a particular conflict, era, service, technology (like an artillery museum), or unit (like a regimental museum).
Český Šternberk Castle (castle museum) Italian Court (castle museum) Kačina (castle museum) Karlštejn (castle museum) Konopiště (castle museum) Křivoklát Castle (castle museum) Military museum Lešany (museum of military vehicles) Mining Museum Příbram (museum of mining) Škoda Auto Museum (auto museum) Stranov (castle museum)
Major site on Czech military, fortification section (in Czech) Military History of East Bohemia; Czechoslovak border fortifications; General military – amateur historical groups site (in Czech) Czechoslovak border fortifications – large database of bunkers (in Czech) Czechoslovak defenses – database of heavy fortification objects (in Czech)
Pages in category "Military and war museums in the Czech Republic" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Czech Armed Forces (Czech: Armáda České republiky, lit. 'the Army of the Czech Republic'), also known as the Czech Army, is the military service responsible for the defence of the Czech Republic as part of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic (Czech: ozbrojené síly České republiky) [11] alongside the Military Office of the President of the Republic and the Castle Guard. [12]