The flint is replaced by steel and gunpowder, the bow by the crossbow, the shot by the shot, and the beast in the crosshairs by the man. These fundamental changes merely pierce the veil of 10,000 years of evolution of weaponry. The new exhibition tells the story of weapons through the ages - how they have changed, how the technology to make them has evolved - and, most importantly, the answer to the question of when and why what is in the gun's sights has changed. There's the flint. One of the first materials used by our ancestors for both tools and the first weapons, until many years later when humans invented the arquebus - a firearm with the explosive power of gunpowder. Gunpowder, whose explosive power is paradoxically unleashed by the very fire that the flint sparks. Flint, the weapon of the Stone Age, becomes part of its substitute. And now for the purpose. The weapon invented by man was originally used to hunt down food, to defend oneself against an enemy, usually a beast. We still hunt beasts today, but at some point the weapon was also used for man against man, for one group of people against another.