Higgins Armory Museum, located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is the only museum in the Western Hemisphere that is solely devoted to arms and armor. Between the years of 1928 and 1931, John Woodman Higgins built a unique steel and glass structure to house his personal collection of knightly armor, and it is now a public, non-profit museum specializing in the history of medieval armor and weaponry. Currently, the museum features about 4,000 pieces that range from medieval and Renaissance Europe to Ancient Greece and Rome, Africa, the Middle East, India, and Japan. It is visited annually by over 58,000 guests.
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