HMAK was until its end the oldest institution of the military of Denmark, and could trace its history back to 1602.

Tøjhuskomplekset was to be the main armoury for storage, maintenance and production of the King's war materiel, for both the Army and Navy.

In 1909 Army Technical Corps (Danish: Hærens Tekniske Korps, "HTK") was formed to take organizational command of some of all those administration areas.

Still numerous departments, companies, regiments and corps to handle materiel came and went doing the next 60 years, some under HTK, some independent.

In January 1991, HMAK was organized into "Army Supply Service" (Hærens Forsyningstjeneste), "Army Technical Service" (Hærens Tekniske Tjeneste), "Jutland assembling area" (Jyske Parkområde), "Zealand assembling area" (Sjællandske Parkområde) and "Munition Arsenal" (Ammunitionsarsenalet).