 High
voltage demonstration at the Deutsches Museum,
Munich.
The equipment includes a 300KV AC transformer, and a 1MV Marx impulse
generator, and is demonstrated three times a day.
More info here.
Museum info
with more images
300KV AC arcs (left to right) : point to point, to faraday cage
containing serious-looking German chap, arcs round the edges of 2ft x 1" glass plate,
burn mark on glass.
   
Lightning discharge approx. 1 metre long from Marx generator to model
house. Notice leaders (arrowed) which didn't make it. VERY LOUD!

Vaporising a metre of copper wire, Marx generator, closeup of Marx
sparkgaps.
  
Megavoltmeter on control panel!

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