One day, my roommate Anže told me that we were going to see Napoleon’s tomb. At first, I wasn’t impressed because I don’t pay much attention to wars that happened before 1900 they don’t seem very relevant to modern times. Let me explain something you know that feeling when you’re going somewhere but you really don’t want to be there? That was me the whole way, until we arrived and I saw a tank. That’s when I knew we were in the right place. After that, everything just snowballed, and I started geeking out over guns. I don’t know how Anže handled my excitement, since he was geeking out over planes and boats, but I guess we’re even in a way. If you ask me, my favorite gun is the tomigun. It’s like a rifle that Italian mafias used after the war. I love it because it’s a predecessor to modern submachine guns, and I think it’s cool how predecessors of technology are often some kind of evolutionary leap. One thing I like about war is that it pushes the human mind to a completely different level of thinking. And if you ask me, that kind of thinking should happen even without war but it can’t, because war pushes your brain in a way nothing else can, literally, since you’re fighting for your life. Back to the museum some of the exhibits were projections of battle plans, which surprised me. I never thought they could show that in a museum; I assumed it was classified. I also loved that there were life-size missiles, anti-tank bombs, and not just anti-tank bombs life-size anti-boat bombs too. It was kind of crazy.
Overall, I’d give the museum 9 out of 10. The only thing I’d add is that people could try handling some guns, like we can at the Pivka Museum in Slovenia.
