Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Curators Speak Out: Danny and Ashley on the World of Firearms Museums" video.

  1. I am german, and not Britta herself , but her boyfriend. I like museums, and also castles/palaces , because i am interessted in history. Weapon based museums exist in Germany, but for reasons of german history of 20th century , not much, for example the Wehrgeschichtliches Museum/ museum of military history in Rastatt or the Waffenmuseum/ weapons museum in Oberndorf am Neckar ( weapons and other products of Mauser, Heckler & Koch and Feinwerkbau). In both museums there is no guide ( in german ,Führer' ;-)), the ladies at the entrance don't know anything about weapons . The director oft the museum in Rastatt knows much, i saw him as guide of a historic tour to the battlefield , Hartmannsweiler Kopf'. In Vienna i visited the Military Museum in former Arsenal, a staff member, seeming soldiers, talked long with me, but in Hofrüstkammer in former imperial Hofburg, the staff persons had been unfriendly. Then you can find in Germany Museums/ palaces with large arms collections. For example the Reichsstadtmuseum in Rothenburg ob der Tauber ( no guide), Sigmaringen palace ( the guided tour does not include the famous weapons collection. During my last visit in the weapons collection room i was mistaken for a guide, when i spoke to some visitors, they thanked me for answering their questions) . Also visit Baldern castle, the weapons collection is the former armoury of a typical HRE small state, Düring my last guided tour, the female guide told mostly nonsens about weapons. Then there are a lot of Homeregion Museums/ Heimatmuseen or palaces with small colections of weapons. For example rusty relicts of germanic warriors graves, from 1848 revolution attempt or some smallswords of the palace owners ancestors. But either there are no guides, or they know nothing, it happened, that i gave answers to questions about weapons. Here it often happens, that the weapons ( Bad , Bad things!!!) disappear, when you visit the museum/ palace the next time. One day i was nearly thrown out of a civilian Museum, when the guide claimed , a noodle cutter is a tobacco cutter.
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