Military History Museum Piešťany ( Slovak: Vojenské historické múzeum Piešťany, abbreviation VHM Piešťany) is a military museum in

Piešťany Piešťany (; , , , ) is a town in Slovakia. It is located in the western part of the country within the Trnava Region and is the seat of its Piešťany District, own district. It is the biggest and best known spa town in Slovakia and has around ...

in western

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

. It is located in

Piešťany Airport Piešťany Airport is a minor international airport serving the spa town of Piešťany, Slovakia. Operations The airport is used for music festivals during the summer and is home to the Military History Museum Piešťany. Its airport layout is ...

in buildings of former military base. It was opened in 2004. Expositions of the museum are focused on aircraft and vehicles of the

Czechoslovak army The Czechoslovak Army (Czech and Slovak: ''Československá armáda'') was the name of the armed forces of Czechoslovakia. It was established in 1918 following Czechoslovakia's declaration of independence from Austria-Hungary. History In t ...

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. Exhibits include several MiG-29s, many MiG-21s, MiG-23s, different Sukhoi aircraft, several T-34, T-55 and T-72 tanks and many others vehicles and aircraft used by Czechoslovak and Slovak armies. File:Bývalé letectvo - panoramio.jpg, Outdoor exposition of aircraft, various

MiG-21 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet aircraft, jet fighter aircraft, fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan, Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB, Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Its nicknames in ...

fighters File:Smutný pohľad - panoramio.jpg, Outdoor exposition of helicopters,

Mi-24 The Mil Mi-24 (; NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship, attack helicopter and low-capacity transport helicopter, troop transport with room for eight passengers. It is produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and was introduced ...

and

Mi-17 The Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name: Hip) is a Soviet-designed Russian military helicopter family introduced in 1975 (Mi-8M), continuing in production at two factories in Russia, in Kazan and Ulan-Ude. It is known as the Mi-8M series in Russia ...

File:Hala č.1 - panoramio.jpg,

MiG-29 The Mikoyan MiG-29 (; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twinjet, twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the MiG-29, along with the large ...

fighter, Museum in Piešťany has several aircraft of this type File:Su 25 - panoramio.jpg,

Su-25 The Sukhoi Su-25 ''Grach'' ( ('' rook''); NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) is a subsonic, single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by Sukhoi. It was designed to provide close air support for Soviet Ground Forces. The ...

aircraft with armament File:Hala č.2 -ľahká obrnená technika. - panoramio.jpg, Exposition of IFV vehicles File:Stredný tank T-72M1 - panoramio.jpg, Exposition on tanks,

T-72 The T-72 is a family of Soviet Union, Soviet main battle tanks that entered production in 1973. The T-72 was a development based on the T-64 using thought and design of the previous Object 167M. About 25,000 T-72 tanks have been built, and refu ...

and T-55AM2 File:Dobová výzbroj, výstroj a technika čs. armády, používaná v období rokov 1945 – 1992. - panoramio.jpg, Exposition of military trucks File:Tanková technika - panoramio.jpg, Exposition of vehicles on

T-34 The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank from World War II. When introduced, its 76.2 mm (3 in) tank gun was more powerful than many of its contemporaries, and its 60-degree sloped armour provided good protection against Anti-tank warfare, ...

chassis

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Museums established in 2004