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RAAC MEMORIAL AND TANK MUSEUM

Hopkins Barracks
Puckapunyal, Victoria

Ph: (07) 5492 5930
Fax: (02) 5492 5930
Email: webmaster@qam.com.au

The Royal Australian Armoured Corps Memorial and Army Tank Museum, to give it its full title, is located within the Army complex at Puckapunyal, near Seymour, an hour and half drive north of Melbourne.

There you will find a large collection of armoured fighting vehicles from around the world, even a Swedisn S-tank! There are also soft-skinned vehicles on display as well as an Army horse carrying rail carriage and a a collection of firearms and military.

It is an official Army museum and has access to Army resources. As a consequence the Army takes care of some of the restoration and maintenance work. You can sometimes hear currently-serving vehicles being tested and driven around the adjacent workshops.

At one of my visits the Museum was being used as bit of a holding yard for the then-recently-retired Leopard tanks and there were six or eight of them parked up in the yards. These were, presumably, being decommissioned for distribution to other museums and use as memorials as I have seen a couple pop up around the place.

The Museum's collection is a fascinating one with an example of pretty much every type of armoured vehicle that Australian forces has used.

Image Gallery

To see a photo gallery of the pics I took while I was there over a couple of visits, click on the picture below. There are also full walkaround galleries of many of the vehicles in the walkaround section of my site.

Go to RAAC Memorial and Tank Museum official website

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This page was last updated 04 February 2015