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25th December 2023, 07:39 PM
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The museum is housed in an old building, which from what I recall used to be a monastery. There are other items on display, but I was there for the arms and armor and there was plenty of it.
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25th December 2023, 07:42 PM
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The collection starts with a large hall, dedicated to European arms and armor from the late Middle Ages to the 1700s.
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25th December 2023, 07:44 PM
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Considering that this is really a private collection, all assembled in recent times, the scope is quite impressive.
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25th December 2023, 07:47 PM
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It is a testament to what is possible through a combination of passion and sufficient financial resources.
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25th December 2023, 07:50 PM
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I am not aware if anyone has gone through the effort of cataloguing and publishing the collection. If not, hopefully someone eventually does.
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25th December 2023, 07:54 PM
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There are, as has been noted in the past, some items in the collection that are of dubious origins. A careful study by the right experts should be able to separate the genuine ones from the fakes.
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25th December 2023, 07:58 PM
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To be fair, most of us have probably acquired some fakes inadvertently as part of the learning process in collecting. If we could collect on the scale Baumann did, we would probably end up with a good number of questionable items as well.
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