Australian Armour and Artillery Museum, Military museum in Smithfield, Australia.
The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum in Smithfield, Cairns, holds over 190 exhibits, including more than 100 vehicles from Germany, the US, Australia, Britain, Russia, Japan and Czechoslovakia. Artillery dates back to World War I. Among the tanks are two rare Sentinel cruisers, a Panther, a Tiger, a KV-1 under restoration and a Sturmgeschütz III rebuilt from parts of one vehicle destroyed in the Courland Pocket.
The museum opened officially in 2014 in Smithfield, Cairns, and grew from a private collection into Australia's largest holding of military vehicles. Many exhibits were bought abroad, notably from the Littlefield Collection when it was downsized. Wargaming Inc purchased an AC1 Sentinel there and returned it to Australia, giving the museum one of six surviving Australian Cruiser tanks. A Sturmgeschütz III Ausf G was restored between September 2021 and June 2025 using parts from a single vehicle destroyed in the Courland Pocket.
The museum's name is often shortened to AusArmour. Each year it marks its birthday with AusArmourfest, a three-day event at which visitors can ride in working vehicles such as the Hetzer, T-72, Panzer IV G, Leopard, Kettenkrad and Sabre. The restoration workshop's work is shown in a YouTube series, "Workshop Wednesday", running since 2021.
The site includes a 50-metre shooting gallery where visitors can fire two types of Second World War rifles at a target, and a restoration workshop where vehicles are rebuilt. AusArmourfest, held each year over three days around the museum's birthday, lets visitors ride in operational vehicles such as the Hetzer, T-72, Panzer IV G, Leopard, Kettenkrad and Sabre.
Two of the six surviving Australian Cruiser tanks are here: an AC1 Sentinel bought and donated by Wargaming Inc, maker of World of Tanks, which had it returned from the Littlefield Collection in the United States, and a hybrid AC1 hull fitted with an AC3 turret and presented as an AC4.
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