Arsenal
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An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned. Arsenal and armoury or armory are mostly regarded as synonyms, although subtle differences in usage exist.
View of the Entrance to the Arsenal, by Canaletto, 1732
Cannons and mortars of Napoleon's army exhibited along the wall of the Kremlin Arsenal
The Royal Armoury, Leeds
Armory of Swiss Guard
Magazine (artillery)
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A magazine is an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored. The word is taken originally from the Arabic word makhāzin (مخازن), meaning "storehouses", via Italian and Middle French.
Colonial Williamsburg magazine of the eighteenth century in Virginia
A shell hoist within a fixed gun emplacement at Battery Moltke, used to lift ordnance from a room below
Weapons magazine aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt in 2003
The magazines of the Yamato explode