Military Museum

A military museum may seem a strange and unlikely tourist sight, but we ought not to miss it. The Historical and Army Museum provides an occasion to recall the military highlights of five thousand years of Syria’s history.

There is a series of dioramas which look inevitably somewhat stilted and artificial, but they are most carefully composed. The weapons and objects on display, together with a wealth of maps, make it possible to follow developments from Qadesch onwards. For once, we are in a museum which does not stop short at the 19th century; the events most vividly depicted are the most recent ones.