Military Museum of Elvas

2 hours well spent

3 euro to visit. Its quite old-fashioned, all artefacts, no history, but its got lots of vehicles, and nearly everything is labelled in English. A bonus is the access to the fortifications in that cor...

Visiting Elvas.

Also need to visit is the “Military Museum” located in the “Quartel do Casarão”». The name of the barracks was placed in memory of a large building that Cosmander, a Dutch Jesuit, had demolished in th...

A cup half-full

We went here because another visitor the day before was raving about the place. Lucky them had a free entry as it was a public holiday. We visited the next morning so had to pay a few euros to get in...

Fascinating museum - unique collection

Firstly this museum was open when others weren’t. We were really surprised at how much time we spent there and what a unique and interesting collection we found. We loved all the horse tack. I took l...

it has a lot of potential

this large museum has a lot of potential with a ton of exhibits on all things military and the tanks on show and many other military vehicles from the past were an eye opener and worth the admission c...