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Designed by Prof. Thucydides Valentis in the eclectic modernist style, the War Museum (Greek: Polemiko Mousio) was inaugurated in 1975 in Athens and hosts an interesting collection of war artefacts from antiquity to the modern era. This Greek Museum holds a collection of 20,000 historic photographs from 1897 to 1950s and an important collection of antique maps.

The Entrance Hall of the War Museum features some 12 glass cabinets containing diplomatic corps, infantry, cavalry, artillery, navy and air force uniforms from the 19th century to World War II.

Saroglos Weapon Collection

The Museum boasts one of the largest private collections of weapons in the world. The Saroglos Hall on the Ground Floor features a variety of vintage weapons collected by Captain Petros Saroglos in the later part of the 19th and early 20th century. There are different types of armour and hand-to-hand-battle weapons as well as a large amount of weapons used in the Greek War of Independence: muskets, flintlock, yataghans, many elaborately decorated.

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