Styrian Armoury

Living History

Please note our opening hours during the winter!

Among the 21 departments and institutions of the Joanneum Universal Museum, founded as the Joanneum in 1811, the Armoury is in a class of its own. Attracting around 55,000 visitors annually, it is the Joanneum’s most-visited institution without an exhibitions role. Moreover, as the largest historic armoury in the world, it is a living memorial to a chequered, conflict-ridden past, whose bogeymen and prejudices are still with us.

Please note: In order to protect and preserve the historic site there are no signs and text available about our artefacts in the exhibition rooms.

To ensure you enjoy your visit please refer to our visitors' guide, audio guide or tour guides to receive more information on the history of the Landeszeughaus and its unique collection.

Ask the front desk for our educational material!

Visitors' Guide: English and Italian, free
Audio guide: € 2,50 - English and Italian
Guided tours: € 2,50 - 1pm (EN, 12:30 pm as of 1.1.2019), 11am and 2pm (GER)

Guided tours

Di 19.03.

Guided Tour through the Styrian Armoury. 12:30pm (EN), 11am and 2pm (GER)

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Mi 20.03.

Guided Tour through the Styrian Armoury. 12:30pm (EN), 11am and 2pm (GER)

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Do 21.03.

Guided Tour through the Styrian Armoury. 12:30pm (EN), 11am and 2pm (GER)

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Fr 22.03.

Guided Tour through the Styrian Armoury. 12:30pm (EN), 11am and 2pm (GER)

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Sa 23.03.

Guided Tour through the Styrian Armoury. 12:30pm (EN), 11am and 2pm (GER)

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The Collection

Fire arms and accessories

With around 13,400 items, the collection of small arms and accessories is the most comprehensive in the armoury. It includes 3,867 guns and 4,259 pistols, all of which have a variety of lock more...

Artillery and acessories

The artillery collection has 704 exhibits: volley guns, mortars, cannons, falconets as well as various accessories: bulletscalliper gaugescalliper compassesloading shovelsloading more...

Edged weapons

The collection of edged weapons contains around 2,414 items: two-handed swordsone-and-a-half handers various types of sabrespallaschesestocsdusäggesbroadswords Most of the edged weapons more...

Staff weapons

There are 5.395 staff weapons preserved in the Armoury: mainly halberds and pikes, fewer boar spears, couses, tardes, morning stars and glaives For a long time, staff weapons were the chief more...

Defensive arms

The collection of protective arms provides us with a clear picture of how soldiers protected themselves in wartime. Whether marksman, pikeman, hussar, harquebusier or cuirassier, officer or more...