Bavarian Army Museum, Military museum in New Castle, Ingolstadt, Germany

The Bavarian Army Museum is a military museum in Ingolstadt that displays weapons, uniforms, armor, and documents spanning several centuries. The collection ranges from medieval times through the First World War and occupies multiple historic buildings including the New Castle and Reduit Tilly.

The museum was founded in 1879 by King Ludwig II at the suggestion of General Friedrich von Bothmer and War Minister Joseph Maximilian von Maillinger, gathering collections scattered across Bavaria. First directed by Josef Würdinger, it occupied Munich's army arsenal until 1905, then a new building by Ludwig von Mellinger at the Hofgarten. The collection moved to Ingolstadt's Neues Schloss in 1969 and opened there in 1972 under Peter Jaeckel.

The museum's name recalls the army of the Kingdom of Bavaria, which kept its own forces under the monarch after 1871 and was disbanded in 1918/19. The Reduit Tilly displays the First World War, and since 2012 the adjoining Turm Triva houses the Bavarian Police Museum, transferred from Bamberg in 2007.

The museum is located at Paradeplatz 4 and spreads across multiple historic buildings within walking distance of each other. It helps to allow plenty of time for your visit since the collection is quite large and you will move between different buildings.

The so-called Türkenzelt, the tent of Grand Vizier Sari Süleiman Pasha, has been on show again in the New Castle since April 2021. It had long been absent from the displays, and its return followed the reopening of the redesigned collection after the 2015 state exhibition.