Military Historical Museum of Seville, also called the Regional Military Museum is located in the Plaza of Spain in Seville, access is next to the Puerta de Aragón inside the famous square.
History:
Opened on December 18 de1992, is located between the North Tower and the Porte de Aragón. Between January and June 2000 was refurbished and was provided with two new plants
Content:
Although much of the funds in it are from the former Seville Maestranza Artillery to which were added over time parts and other military pyrotechnics originating from different units, centers and agencies of the Southern Military Region, the content is very uneven, because we find from models to historical military offices were in different parts of the city of Seville, and radio microphones.
Divided into ten rooms which are spread over three floors:
On the ground floor, subdivided into eight rooms are:
I. Ordnance Factory Plaza: Recalling the work done for centuries in the establishment of Seville. It highlights: the mortar mason "The Cantero" decorative bronzes of great value, several bullets and knives.
II. Captain Hall, in honor of the military institution, is in the middle. It has a collection of weapons, some of which date from the fifteenth century, can also be seen firearms originating from Spain and other countries. Highlighted in this room parapet blunderbuss (XVII century) and the blunderbuss crank (XVI century), a model of the siege of the city of Seville by Ferdinand III (year 1248), a model of the Real Factory Guns; carriages of the Captaincy General '.
III. Guard room Prevention: recreates the postwar years after the Spanish Civil War, includes common tools of the time. Stands out as interesting a trench environmental strife of the mid-twentieth century.
IV. Corps Chamber: try to revive the spirit visitors infantry thrown always cheerful and ready for anything. There you can see a collection of heavy machine guns, light machine guns, mortars and machine guns, a flag cubrepercha or backpack, and also a reminder to the Legion and paratroop units.
V. Artillery Armory Hall: the first traces preserved artisans that formed the basis for the first military industry. It represents various craft workshops such as carpentry, metalwork, printing, chemicals, electricity, etc., You can also see an exhibition of grenades, detonators, several devices, projectiles, fuses, etc. It is noteworthy gas mask for horses.
VI. Quartermaster Avenue, showing paintings, utensils and equipments of arms of the Spanish Army (cavalry, artillery, engineers, broadcasting and sappers) and health and veterinary bodies. In this room is to highlight the bronze cannons from the time of Felipe V, a fifteenth-century cannon, the collection of infantry and artillery rangefinders, vision equipment and topography, the collection of helmets, a heliograph used in the Sanctuary Our Lady of the head, the collection of small cannon, a balance of the seventeenth century, the historic railroad equipment (including a car of the decade of 1940); case in relation to activities mandated by the UN missions to the Spanish Army.
VII. Furrielería room: the room where conferences are held frequently and various events, usually related to military history are also ephemeral exhibitions and screenings. We can also view miniaturists collections donated by individuals and some interesting pictures and outfits of knives and martial tables Pavia Regiment 19.
VIII. Meeting Room: site dedicated to the meetings of the members of the "Group Quartermaster (group formed by people who somehow collaborate on tasks of the museum).
In the central plant, subdivided into three rooms are:
I. Board of flags and historical collections: a tribute to Adalid, leader of people of war, a position that was used in the Spanish militia, later came to be designated Master of Campo. This room retains a safe originating in the USA and a chest that dates from the sixteenth century whose safety spring is kept in such good condition that still works and three models of the ships of discovery. Also noteworthy are the office of the Chief of the Organic Division II and the cane and crutch of General Brown as well as documents and manuscripts dating from the War of Independence.
II. Santa Barbara Room: As its name suggests is a summary of the spirit gunner, it can be seen a statue of Santa Barbara dating from the eighteenth century (attributed to Duque Cornejo), small field guns and miniature artillery war of wits.
Atrium is chaired by the flag of Spain and the portrait of His Majesty the King. You can see the army's motto "All for the Fatherland" and a military treatise Villamartín tombstone and a trooper at the time of Alfonso XIII, pikes and halberds and a display of memories.
On the top floor, subdivided into two rooms are:
I. Plans and study room, as if from a balcony of the main hall they were in this room you can see the scripts of the Infantry and Cavalry Regiments. They highlight the map library, which are guarded about five thousand copies of maps and plans, the meeting table and study, the models of peninsular and colonial fortifications.
II. Chamber of cataloging, which are cataloged and investigated the museum collection.