The long weekend was perfect for making a trip. Not that I don't like sitting on my butt and playing games, but sometimes you need some change. Well, but what?

Six months ago (I was really surprised by that, it came to me that it was earlier), when I read an article about the General Patton Museum I remembered our Czech analogy - the Military Technical Museum Lešany and promised to @getonthetrain, who is the author of the mentioned article, that I'd visit it once again (I had been at least four times there) and write a post about it.

And so it happened. Well, it took us a long time before we managed this trip, but on our defense, the museum doesn't open until May and in June we were ill or the weather was bad. So the Day D took place this Thursday (5th July).

In the morning the weather didn't look much promising in Prague, but when we arrived at Lešany at noon, we were baking and frying in the sun. Fortunately, the museum has most of its exhibits in houses, garages, and hangars, where you can cool yourself a bit.

The museum can be easily reached by train, but we drove by car because it is a real adventure. Especially when you're using navigation. A couple of years ago, it had led us to the stairs and to some overgrown forest path that led somewhere in the wild and from which we had to draw back. And even this year it didn't spare us of its jokes. Well, it couldn't know about the first one.

When we arrived in Týnec nad Sázavou, we found out that the road was closed and we were forced to go through a field road that shook off life from us, and after a while, the navigation was going to lead us to another field road. It probably didn't know where the entrance to the museum was. It probably led to the other end of the grounds, where I think that ordinary mortals have nothing to do. Fortunately, we didn't go there for the first time, and we knew we had to drive down the normal road towards the river and turn left before the bridge.

So we arrived and parked in the meadow under the trees. The car was bloody. Well, from the juice. From cherries juice.

I note beforehand that most photos are worth a fart. I don't like a long photo shoot. Most of the time I'm just going to press the camera button and go, and there was bad lighting in the buildings, and I couldn't shoot the signs because they were illuminated terribly. But you will see it yourself.

For a better image of what you can find in the museum, I attach the area map. I like the tanks, camouflage dresses, the weapons, and so on, but I'm not an expert, so don't expect me to make some kind of explanation. I'm just a shallow girl who really likes the look. But I'll try not to write nonsenses at least.

As you can see, there is quite a lot available, and everyone can find their own interest. The museum tour can be finished, if you don't read each sign honestly, in about an hour. But if you take children with you, for God's sake, don't read every sign or they will hate you and forgive you only if you buy them some cool thematic toy or maybe a gas mask in their local shops. The best one is right at the entrance. That's where you get quite decent gear for airsoft for quite decent money. If I had money, I'd buy everything in there.

Let the Tour de Lešany begin

Next, along the way, you will find a huge radar and on the left is a Display Arena. Most of the time it is empty, but when you hit some festival, you can see some of those tanks in action.

Individual expositions

Signal Corps

Exposition of all transmitters and telegraphs, whether in a desktop or mobile form, with all accessories.

AA Artillery

A hangar is full of anti-aircraft cannons. Both small and large. Already when you came to it and its neighbor, it was clear what this exposition will be about.

Škoda guns

If you like guns, you can find yours in this pavilion. Some cannons were pretty huge.

Then Military Vehicles came. It is divided into five parts, and each hangar represents the vehicles of a certain period. Specific years are drawn on the outside of the garage, and above the front door when some expositions are connected.

It was such a little tasting of what you can find in individual expositions. There is also an outdoor exposition, where are parked many tanks, rocket launchers and other military vehicles. I like it a lot. I bet that most of the vehicles are functional and are certainly used in various cultural events. However, some of the tanks have their barrel stuffed with something.

Tank Battle

When viewing parked tanks, you will be able to hear some battle sounds from a large hangar where you can personally walk through the trench during the reconstruction of the Ostrava operation.

Rocket Troops

After disengaging from this more interactive exposition, we went to explore rockets of all kinds. I like them a lot because of their badass look.

The first thing you'll see when entering the hangar is some stoned soldier.

You can see large rockets here

and even small rockets. These are guided missiles, I think:

And who is interested in rocket guts, can see them on several exhibits incl. Russian educational dummy.

Railway Troops

And in the end, we went to see the trains. There's nothing special about them. Simply normal locomotives and wagons. Just a little more armored sometimes.

As a cherry on a cake, I add a photo of such a strange protruded drain that can be easily overlooked on the way to parking lot. It is an observation pillbox (yeah, the word pillbox is written on its sign). A man was hiding in it to report explosions and possible unexploded bombs during air raids around railways, bridges, power stations and other important sites.