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The Higgins Armory Museum is the only museum dedicated exclusively to armor in the Western hemisphere.
The museum was founded in 1931 by John Woodman Higgins, a wealthy industrialist and avid collector of armor.
As a young man, Higgins (1874-1961) had a passion for medieval tales about knights and castles. Growing up in late nineteenth-century Worcester, MA, then a leading center of American manufacturing, he observed blacksmiths, factory workers, and entrepreneurs, and developed an interest in metalworking and industry. These two passions would merge in the Higgins Armory Museum.
Today, Higgins’s legacy lives on in the museum’s collection of over 5000 artifacts, centering on the armor and arms of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and including comparable pieces from the ancient period and from around the world.
For more information, please visit http://www.higgins.org.
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Almain collar, Germany, 1600-1650
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