Stating that the museum attracts more than 100,000 visitors in a year, Ortner said: 'The Museum of Military History is probably the second-largest collection of Ottoman pieces in the world outside Turkey.

What's more interesting is that a great majority of the pieces exhibited here consists of those which belong to Ottoman armies.' As they weren't used in any wars since then, they could be preserved up until today. Giving information about the storage process of the artifacts throughout the hundreds of years since the second Siege of Vienna, Ortner said: 'Ammunitions, the number of which is around 100, dating back to the second siege by the Ottomans were primarily preserved in the ammunition stores of the emperorship. Featuring various war pieces and military vehicles belong to different periods, the museum also inspires many other museums around the world,' Ortner said. 'I can say that this is one of the most prominent and biggest military museums in the world with its huge collection of 1.5 million pieces. Organizing conferences on various subjects regularly, the museum also hosted history Professor İlber Ortaylı, who spoke in 2010 on the second Siege of Vienna.Ĭhristian Ortner, the director of the museum, told Anadolu Agency (AA), that featuring pieces from wars and military incidents that are up to 500 years old, the museum presents traces of Byzantine, Baroque, Rococo and Gothic styles of architecture. One of the most prominent and largest museums in the world The Museum of Military History in Vienna also displays weapons and uniforms from Ottoman soldiers who fought in World War I along with medals, reliefs and ornaments that belonged to Enver Pasha, one of the prominent figures of the time. The museum has the second-largest collection of Ottoman artifacts after Turkey. In the lounge where Ottoman artifacts are exhibited, the most prominent pieces are rifles inlaid with mother of pearl, guns of various sizes, bricks, daggers, hats and a flag with 'tawhid' (verses on the unity of God) written on it.

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