Tell Fakhar Military Museum

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Tell Fakhar Military Museum (Arabic: متحف تلّ الفخار العسكري mitḥaf tall al-fakhār al-‘askarī) is a museum and war memorial in the northern Syrian Golan Heights, located on the former site of a Six-Day War-era outpost of the Arab Army, within the municipality and township of Jebel Hermonat. The museum is owned and managed by the Ministry of Defence of the Arab Union, and features multiple decommissioned contemporary tanks and military aircraft, former bunkers and observation towers, and other military artifacts dating from 1967, alongside a marble monument dedicated to the soldiers who perished defending the former outpost.

The closest permanent settlement to the museum is the Druze town of Buqata, located approximately 2 kilometres to the southwest. Tell Fakhar Military Museum is an important component of the local economy of Buqata, employing over 50 people as museum hosts, tour guides, maintenance staff and civilian security personnel; the museum also attracts tourists to the markets, restaurants and other businesses of Buqata, which is the nearest source of food and drink as well as fuel, electricity and other essentials.