It has an innumerable amount of tanks. I will be uploading some pictures after my last visit because unfortunately my camera ran out of charge. It even has a well-kept little willie tank from 1915!
It has some really in-depth summaries about the tanks. Talks go on, I attended a talk on Syria and the tanks they had. Also, the soviet union vs England. I learnt Englands tanks have better tanks than Soviet Unions in this talk also, Soviet Union rely on numbers. One of the two men who did this talk had been an engineer in the gulf wars in Iraq. It was very explanatory and informative. He talked about the tanks with great enthusiasm and thus I learnt a lot.
Afterwards I looked around. As I am writing a book on the genesis of tanks and need to know a lot about Mark I and Little Willie and The Landship Committee, it answered a lot of my questions. They had an audio recording of what Swinton said when he first saw the Little Willie, and his disappointment and anger. Unfortunately they do not have a Mark I tank. However they had Mark IV and in my opinion that's not much difference; cannons mounted on sides, caterpillar wheels, etc.
Very good museum. I recommend this for anybody else who has a big love for history. I really enjoyed my time there. The gift shop has lots of cool things such as history books that are not on just tanks but also Bletchley park, the blitz, and more, also they had tank models for sale, camo stationary, spitfire mugs, fictional war books such as Micheal Morpurgo (my brother bought Private Peaceful, that is set in World Two about a soldiers trauma in the trenches), tank lego models, real bullets and shirts decorated with tanks and military jokes.
Here is their website and some photos I found on the internet. I will upload some of my own after my next visit in August or September.
http://www.tankmuseum.org/home
In the top right, you can see the back of the little willie from 1915.
This is the front of the museum. When I went staff were outside controlling remote control mini tanks. It can move it's turret around and change speed.
