The museum will present a unique Tiger tank. The legendary machine played in the movie

The new season will begin in the largest non-state military museum in the republic on April 20. Visitors can see in full beauty not only an exact copy of the German Tiger I tank, but also another replica of this machine. “According to the only surviving original exhibited at the tank museum in Bovington, UK, our boys built a replica of it on tracks. At the request of the filmmakers, they also produced another piece on a wheeled chassis. In some places where filming took place, it was not possible to use a machine on tracks so as not to destroy the background,” explains Radka Vávrová, a member of the museum’s board of directors, adding that there are ramps around this tank on which the film crew moves during filming. This way, people will see how the scenes that take place while driving are created.

Enthusiasts from Rokycansky museums flew to England to see the original tank. They were able to build the copies in the gallows deadline in the workshops in Mýta. “75 days have passed since the entry into the first flap. We approached several machine shops that made the individual parts and then assembled it. A total of 15 people were involved in various trades, from repairmen to room painters. Of course, we drive the tank ourselves during filming, we wouldn’t entrust it to anyone,” adds Miroslav Koloc, an automotive designer by profession, who is the soul of the entire team. “The plot of the film takes place in Stalingrad, Russia during the Second World War. We haven’t seen it yet, it’s not in theaters yet. Unfortunately, the contract with its production does not allow us to reveal the name,” adds Miroslav Koloc.

“We have already produced a whole range of machines for filmmakers. For example, in the film Calm on the Western Front, there were two functional models of French tanks from the First World War Saint Chamond. We built a German Panther tank named T-34 for the Russian blockbuster Legenda and a German PZ III tank for the American trilogy War of Fire,” recalls museum director František Koch. Most of these machines can be viewed by people in the area.

Preparations for the new season will begin in full this weekend. “We have a brigade waiting for us. 60 members of the military history club, which operates at our museum, plus other volunteers will meet here. He will start muttering, we will clean, wash, tidy up, take down the tarpaulins from the exhibits. We also have to install labels and voice boxes with interpretation in four languages,” adds Radka Vávrová.

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Museum on the demarcation line will be open to the public on weekends and holidays from April 20 to the end of June. During the summer holidays, people can go there every day. The main event of the season, the Liberation Celebration, is scheduled for May 4. The organizers are preparing a combat demonstration, a parade of equipment, interactive competitions for children and a concert by the Tremolo orchestra ending with fireworks. The museum team has also already started preparations for the next big event, Day of the Ground Forces – Mud, which this year will take place at the tankodrome near Strašice on June 29.