Malbork Armoury. European arms from the 11th to the 19th century

The Malbork Castle Museum houses two permanent exhibitions of weapons, popularly known as armouries. The first one displays European weaponry from the eleventh to the mid-nineteenth century, including a large collection of medieval swords, several dozen modern rapiers and small swords, hunting crossbows with tensioning mechanism, components of horse reins, a rich collection of firearms and numerous modern armours. The most valuable artefacts in the collection are three inlaid swords from the 14th century, a barrel from a houfnice cannon uses by the Teutonic Knights with an image of Mary from the first half of the 15th century, one of the oldest Polish bozdogan type maces from the early 17th century, an elaborately crafted “half-hook” pistol from the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century, armament of regiments from the Saxon times (the first half of the 18th century), including a unique baton with the AR monogram) and hussar armour from the first half of the 17th century.