The Tank Museum
The Tank Museum is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile north of the village of Wool and 12 miles west of the major port of Poole.Photo: Hohum, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours:
10:00 AM—5:00 PM
December 24th—26: closed - Type: Museum
- Description: military museum in Bovington, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “The Bovington Tank Museum”
- Address: King George V Road, Wareham, BH20 6JG
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Royal Tank Regiment Memorial, Bovington Tank Museum and Monkey World.
Royal Tank Regiment Memorial, Bovington Tank Museum
Memorial
Photo: Morio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Royal Tank Regiment Memorial, Bovington Tank Museum is situated 420 feet west of The Tank Museum.
Monkey World
Zoo
Photo: John Lamper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre is a 65-acre ape and monkey sanctuary, rescue centre and primatarium near Wool, Dorset, England. Monkey World is situated 1 mile east of The Tank Museum.
Wool railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Lamper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wool railway station serves the village of Wool in Dorset, England. It is on the South West Main Line, 125 miles 69 chains down the line from London Waterloo. South Western Railway manages the station and operates all services. Wool railway station is situated 1¼ miles southeast of The Tank Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Stoke and Briantspuddle.
East Stoke
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Stoke is a village in the English county of Dorset. It lies three miles west of the small town of Wareham and two miles east of Wool. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 410. East Stoke is situated 2½ miles southeast of The Tank Museum.
Briantspuddle
Hamlet
Turners Puddle
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Turners Puddle is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Turners Puddle is situated 3 miles north of The Tank Museum.
The Tank Museum
- Categories: military museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Wool, Purbeck District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.69444° or 50° 41′ 40″ northLongitude
-2.24091° or 2° 14′ 27″ westOperator
The Tank MuseumOpen location code
9C2VMQV5+QJOpenStreetMap ID
way 256922038OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q895368
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“The Tank Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متحف الدبابات”
- Azerbaijani: “Bovinqton tank muzeyi”
- Chinese: “伯維頓戰車博物館”
- Chinese: “博文頓坦克博物館”
- Chinese: “博文顿坦克博物馆”
- Chinese: “波維頓坦克博物館”
- Chinese: “波维顿坦克博物馆”
- Chinese: “英国坦克博物馆”
- Chinese: “英國坦克博物館”
- Czech: “Bovington Tank Museum”
- Czech: “Tankové muzeum v Bovingtonu”
- Dutch: “The Tank Museum”
- Finnish: “The Tank Museum”
- French: “Bovington Tank Museum”
- French: “musée des blindés de Bovington”
- French: “Musée des Blindés de Bovington”
- German: “Panzermuseum Bovington”
- German: “Tank Museum”
- Greek: “Μουσείο Αρμάτων”
- Hebrew: “מוזיאון הטנק”
- Hebrew: “מוזיאון הטנקים”
- Hungarian: “Bovingtoni Harckocsi Múzeum”
- Hungarian: “Harckocsi Múzeum (Bovington)”
- Italian: “The Tank Museum”
- Japanese: “ボービントン戦車博物館”
- Japanese: “戦車博物館(ボーヴィントン)”
- Korean: “보빙턴 전차 박물관”
- Polish: “Bovington Tank Museum”
- Polish: “The Tank Museum”
- Portuguese: “Museu de Tanques (Bovington)”
- Portuguese: “Museu de Tanques”
- Portuguese: “O Museu de Tanques de Bovington”
- Russian: “Танковый музей”
- Slovak: “Tankové múzeum v Bovingtone”
- Slovenian: “Tank Museum”
- Swedish: “Bovington stridsvagnsmuseum”
- Swedish: “Bovington Tank Museum”
- Turkish: “Bovington Tank Müzesi”
- Turkish: “Tank Müzesi”
- Ukrainian: “Музей танків у Бовінгтоні”
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