Randomizer post: Couple of museums Graz has to offer

Hello. Good day. Yes. Let’s start. This is a little call back post. In between our visit to Vienna and before our tour of Italy we had a couple of days in between where we visited two of the museums in Graz. The armoury museum and Volkskunde museum which probably translates to museum of the people or something. I’ll keep these rather short, but still I thought they were interesting enough to write a bit about, just didn’t have the time between the trips.

Graz’s armoury museum is one of the most marketed visiting points in the city and is situated right in the city centre. It was closed during winter so again the reason why it took us so long to get to. The armoury was not massive but still impressive four stores of old timey war gear. The impressiveness of the museum was not necessarily in the gear, but the shear volume of the items. I can’t remember but it was something like 20-30 thousand separate pieces of weapons or armour. Lots of it was same pieces of armour or some old timey firearms. The older firearms were up to 30 kilos, meant to be fired from certain holes in the castle walls. There were a few more detailed pieces like some plate armour and one full sized horse armour. A few swords had engravings and other details, in contrast some of the simplest items were pretty much just nails on a stick. My favourites were some of the long pistols and their details in the wood were absolutely beautiful. The armoury was a great experience and it did not take hours to get through and I definitely encourage people to visit it.

The shelves were filled with these heavy ass guns

Plenty of armor on display

They had few old canons as well

The sheer amount of weapons was impressive

Carrying a little Jesus on top of your heart when heading to battle

Long pistols were mainly for cavalry

Some where detailed

Some of the officers armours were also highly detailed

I loved the varity in the detailing of the pistols

Some of the pistols had a ball at the end

Looking at dat horse armor

Some detailings on the sword blades

Havin a good ol time with weapons and armors

Second museum we visited was the Volkskunde museum. This was also highly regarded on TripAdvisor and other traveling sites, so we decided to give it a visit. Basically, it is a look on the history of people living in Styria. This sounds interesting to a point but is the simple lives of farmers in the medieval ages that damn exciting. There were some nice parts to it like the over 100-year-old cottage that was moved into the building from the countryside. It reminded me a lot of my family’s summer home in Finland which has old parts from the times when a huge oven warmed the whole house and that turned to ceiling and walls black. Other than that, it was old boxes and clothes etc, not really my cup of tea in the long run. It was nice but there was probably just too much of it. One of my favourites was an old folk story or poem about growing old. 

 

Old cottage moved to the museum quarters

Some small chets at the Volkskunde

There was a large collection of ye olde clothing

literal deathcap to be put on a corpse

My favorite part of the museum, try saying it out loud

Mini organs

The Volkskunde also housed a church

It was fun seeing some of the museums in our home away from home. We’ve seen pretty much all the ones we want to see in the city. From these ones the armoury was clearly better, and Volkskunde was more “ok”. Still in Graz when you buy a ticket to a museum it allows you to get into all the other museums in town, so people who have more energy to walk through multiple museums in a day, then Volkskunde is also worth a quick walkthrough.