For my youngest son Birthday, he asked me to visit with him the Royal Military Museum Brussels.
They do have a large collection of weapons and armor of the renaissance period nd those pictures i posted on the https://marstonmoor54mm.blogspot.com/
Some more pictures.
First 3 on the Belgian volonteer corps, that fought in Mexico for Emperor Maximilian
Learned something new: seems there has been a Belgian military expedition to Portugal in 1832-1935:
https://balagan.info/belgian-corps-1832-35-in-portugals-liberal-wars
Hereunder some pics of the First World War collection
Inside of the Mark IV tank
The large collection of airplanes.
World War 2
The only surviving Belgian Tank hunter of 1940 (T13).
Yes the gun is mounted backwards. This because neutral Belgium didn't want it to look like an offensive weapon.
Uniform of a member of the Big Red One.
So many Americans have died helping to restore democracy in Europe.
Hope they don't lose it themselves now.
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