The museum has an exhibition area of ​​7200 square meters. The permanent exhibition are structured in three main sections: “Late Middle Ages until 1900”, “First and Second World War” and “History of German post-war armed forces”. In a chronological complex presentation more than 7000 exhibits show over 600 years of German military history.

Outstanding museum objects include the exquisitely restored, medieval wrought iron giant - Rod ring gun “Faule Magd” (literally lazy maid) (approx. 1450), the first German submarine “Brandtaucher” (1850/51) and the landing apparatus “Sojus 29” of the Soviet-German space expedition of 1978.

Numerous big military-technical objects, e.g. motor vehicles, tanks, planes, cannons, ammunition and various other special technology from World War I  almost to the present can be seen in two large halls.