There’s still time to see an exhibition of 21 mini war machines.

Tank Back to the Future, which explores history’s failed armoured vehicle designs through a series of scale models, is on loan from the National Military Museum, in the Netherlands and can currently be viewed at the Bovington Tank Museum - but only until Friday, January 25.

Firepower, protection and mobility, the design principles of armoured vehicles are examined and the display looks at doomed tank experiments like the Tsar Tank and the Da Vinci tank.

Another exhibition, featuring all four Victoria Crosses won by the Tank Corps in the First World War, has been extended to run until Easter 2019. It was originally scheduled to run until November.

The Victoria Cross is the British armed forces highest medal for gallantry in the presence of the enemy and the launch of this exhibition was marked in August by a gathering of the descendants of the four brave men who were given the VC. It is the first time the four VCs have been brought together.

Curators at the museum say there’s lots to see and do over Christmas and the New Year.

And even though the centenary year of the First World War is over, there are more anniversaries coming up in 2019.

The mini war machine exhibition will be replaced in April 2019 by a new exhibition commemorating 80 years of the Royal Armoured Corps.

A spokesman said: “Long After the Battle will tell visitors about the lives of the first men to serve in the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) during the Second World War.

“Their experiences will be told through interviews filmed with Second World War Veterans alongside five tanks used by the RAC during the Second World War: a Matilda I, the newly restored Matilda II, a Valentine, a Churchill, and a Sherman. “

Saturday, April 27 will also see the return of the popular Tiger Day when Tiger 131 - the only running Tiger 1 tank in the world - will make an appearance in the arena.

For more information about exhibitions and opening times, visit www.tankmuseum.org/