The Stockholm Army Museum warns visitors about taking trophies in war, then leads them into several large rooms filled with captured battle standards. Many of the displayed flags were taken from Russian forces in Poland. The group finds the contrast between the warning and the scale of the collection amusing. It also shows how a museum can acknowledge the ethics of trophy-taking while preserving the objects through which that history is interpreted.
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Captured battle standards at the Stockholm Army Museum
The Stockholm Army Museum pairs a warning against war trophies with several rooms of battle standards captured from Russian forces in Poland.