Collection

The Collection of the Styrian Armoury contains arms and armour from the 15th to the 18th centuries.

By the turn of the 17th century, the number of arms and armour had grown to approximately 190.000 objects.

Today the Styrian Armoury contains 32, 000 objects: armour, fire arms and cannons, staff and edged weapons, bullet moulds and powder flasks stored on four floors with more than 2000 square metres of exhibition space.

Our conservators explain in an interview how we preserve these objects for further generations and why we cannot touch them.

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...

Styrian Armoury

Herrengasse 16
8010 Graz, Österreich
T +43-316/8017-9810
zeughaus@museum-joanneum.at

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Opening Hours
01. November to 01. April 2019 Tue-Sun, public holidays 11am - 3pm

admission only as part of a guided tour
and also 11am - 3pm: 1., 2., 8., 9., 15., 16., 22., 23., 26. & 31. December admission also without a guided tour (audioguide, brochure)

02. April 2019 to 31. October 2019 Tue-Sun, public holidays 10am - 5pm

admission also without a guided tour (audioguide, brochure)

01. November 2019 to 31. March 2020 Tue-Sun, public holidays

admission only as part of a guided tour.

Guided tours: 1pm (EN, 12:30 pm as of 1.1.2019), 11am and 2pm (GER). For specific dates, please visit our calendar. Additional guided tours on advance notice.

Open in addition:

31st December
22nd April 2019
10th June 2019

Closed:

24th/25th December
1st January 2019
5th March 2019
24th/25th December 2019