The Old Arsenal Museum

by Felicia Tica

Title

The Old Arsenal Museum

Artist

Felicia Tica

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Photograph - Photo

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The Old Arsenal Museum in Solothurn is one of the largest historically oriented armor and weapon exhibitions in Switzerland, however, focuses primarily on the Canton of Solothurn.

History
The building of the present museum was built around 1609. Later it was used for centuries as an armory ( armory ) for the troops of the then state political or sovereign (independent) federal state of Solothurn. This also on the establishment of the State in 1848 with a degree of centralization of military organization beyond . At the beginning of the 20th Century took the Canton of some new armories in operation, located in the old town of Solothurn fire department was converted into a museum.

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The show exhibited Armour objects a cross-section of the Canton Solothurn and Swiss military and war history from the Middle Ages to World War II. It is also shown the historical- political context in which the exhibits played a role : In the Swabian War with the Battle of Dornach of 1499 approximately , the first federal act of war, mittat as a full member of the Alliance in Solothurn, was the de facto independence from the German Empire in the center . But the role of the Solothurn Truppenkontigents in the federal battle of 1847 is illuminated .
Striking highlights in the exhibition, a group of figures stand out with the Diet of Stans is imitated where Niklaus von Flue 1481 arbitrating the dispute between urban and rural cantons, which ultimately led to the inclusion of Freiburg and Solothurn into the federal alliance.
(Infos: Wikipedia)

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January 18th, 2014

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