The Tank Museum is a collection of armored fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp, Dorset. The collection traces the history of tanks with almost 300 vehicles on display. It includes the Tiger 131 , the only working example of a German Tiger 1 tank, and a British First World War mark I, the world’s oldest surviving combat tank.
The writer Rudyard Kipling visited Bovington in 1923 and, after viewing the damaged tanks that had been salvaged at the end of the WW I , recommended that a museum be set up. A shed was established to house the collection but was not opened to the general public until 1947.
During the Russo- Ukrainian War the tank museum was able to provide blueprints and track samples of Soviet equipment allowing Cook Defence Systems to manufacture track for use by Ukraine.
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