THE Tank Museum has embraced the latest technology to create an "interactive experience" to complete its Tiger Collection exhibition.

Museum staff believe they're the first attraction in the world to use augmented reality technology.

Visitors are now able to digitally view a rare Sturmtiger tank, alongside the five actual German tanks which are on show.

The Sturmtiger 'bunker-buster' will be available for visitors to explore in detail, by using a specially-adapted smart phone which the museum will supply.

Museum director Richard Smith explained: "Our exhibition of the Tiger tank family had one important member missing.

"With one Tiger missing from the line-up, we turned to our sponsors at World of Tanks to provide the rare Stürmtiger digitally for our visitors to see alongside the five other Tigers in the collection – and using cutting edge interpretive technology, that’s exactly what they have done.

"This is an exciting project - not only have we been able to call on the latest technology, but we think this is the future of museum interpretation.

"The way it allows the visitor to interact with, and better understand, collections is game changing.

"I'm not aware of any other museum in the world to have taken this approach and we’re looking forward to seeing how our visitors react to it."

The augmented reality proved a big hit during the recent 20,000 sell out Tankfest held earlier this summer.

The Tiger exhibition includes the museum's own Tiger 1, its two King Tigers, and its Jagdtiger, along with the Elefant, which is back in Europe for the first time since the end of the war after being imported from the US.