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Around 70 Matilda IIs survive in various degrees of preservation. Around 30 are in Australia, either in museums, displayed as public monuments or in private ownership. A notable collection is that of the [[Royal Australian Armoured Corps Memorial and Army Tank Museum]], at [[Puckapunyal]], Australia, which has five Matilda IIs on display, including a Matilda Frog flame–tank, a Matilda Hedgehog and a Matilda Bulldozer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.armytankmuseum.com.au/i-vd.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021017193947/http://www.armytankmuseum.com.au/i-vd.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 October 2002 |title=Vehicle Displays and Exhibits |publisher=RAAC Memorial and Army Tank Museum |accessdate=15 February 2010 }}</ref>
Tanks in running condition are owned by [[The Tank Museum]] Bovington in the United Kingdom, the [[American Heritage Museum]] in the United States, and several private owners in Australia. The Tank Museum completely restored its Matilda II tank from 2015-2018, with updates provided through YouTube.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAEOsdxIbLNSwroRJCF5CHG1W3HHHLz9|title=The Matilda Diaries - YouTube|author=|date=|website=YouTube|accessdate=23 March 2018}}</ref> While a gearbox fault prevented it running at the 2018 Tankfest (its first advertised running event since 2013), the issue was corrected and the tank has run at several events since. The Tank Museum at Bovington also displays the only surviving Matilda Canal Defence Light, not on public display since Nov 2019 and currently housed in the Vehicle Conservation Centre. However it has been replaced in the new (July 2020) WW2 Hall display by a static Matilda in desert Caunter livery, original source unknown. This tank has additional steel bars welded to some track link faces, Russian style, despite not being an ex-Russian tank. In the UK, the Imperial War Museum also has a Matilda - listed as a Mk V - with additional turret ring armour on display in the Land Warfare Hall at their Duxford site.
Other examples are displayed at the [[Kubinka Tank Museum]] in Russia, the [[Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History]] in Belgium, the [[Yad La-Shiryon]] museum in the [[Latrun]], the [[Musée des Blindés]] in France, and the [[Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar|Cavalry Tank Museum]] at [[Ahmednagar]] in India.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Matildas.pdf | title=Matilda Infantry tanks (A11 and A12) | publisher=Surviving Panzers | date=2013-01-13 | accessdate=2013-05-08}}</ref>
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