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Arms and Armor Highlights

Hauberk (Shirt) of Mail for Ceremonial Use, c. 1550–1600, Hungarian

The museum’s holdings of arms and armor are among the finest of their kind in the world. The 1977 bequest by the distinguished connoisseur and scholar Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch (1884–1976) accounts for the core of this collection.