Regimental museum

In countries whose armies are organised on a regimental basis, such as the army of the United Kingdom, a regimental museum is a military museum dedicated to the history of a specific army regiment.

List of regimental museums in the UK

In addition to those listed below, many more units (including Yeomanry, Militia and Volunteer regiments) have museums or exhibition spaces, some open only by appointment; for fuller information see the Ogilby Trust website (below).

England

• The Army Medical Services Museum is based at Mytchett in Surrey ^[1]
• The Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon (for the Royal Devon Yeomanry, Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry and the Royal North Devon Yeomanry) is based in Barnstaple ^[2]
• The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment gallery is part of Wardown Park Museum in Luton ^[3]
• The Border Regiment and its successors have a gallery at Cumbria's Museum of Military Life in Carlisle Castle ^[4]
• The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) still has some exhibits at Beany House, although most of the collection was subsumed into the National Army Museum in 2000 ^[5]
• The Cheshire Military Museum (for The Cheshire Regiment, 3rd Carabiniers, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards and Cheshire Yeomanry) is based at Chester Castle ^[6]
• The Devonshire and Dorset regimental collections are displayed in the Keep Military Museum, Dorchester ^[7]
• The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry regimental collections are displayed at Cornwall's Regimental Museum at Victoria Barracks in Bodmin ^[8]
• The Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum is based at Bankfield House, in Halifax, Yorkshire ^[9]
• The DLI Museum in Durham closed in 2016 ^[10]
• The East Yorkshire regimental collection is housed in Wilberforce House, Hull. ^[11]
• The Essex Regiment Museum is based at Oaklands Park in Chelmsford ^[12]
• Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum was based at Woolwich until it closed in 2016 ^[13]
• The Fusilier Museum (Lancashire) is based in Bury, Greater Manchester ^[14]
• The Fusiliers Museum (London) is based in the Tower of London ^[15]
• The Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland is based in Alnwick Castle ^[16]
• The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum (Gloucestershire Regiment and Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) is based at the historic docks in Gloucester ^[17]
• The Green Howards Regimental Museum is based in Richmond, North Yorkshire ^[18]
• The Guards Museum is based at Wellington Barracks in London ^[19]
• The Gurkha Museum is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester ^[20]
• The Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum is based in Hereford ^[21]
• The Honourable Artillery Company Museum is at Armoury House in London ^[22]
• HorsePower: The Museum of the King's Royal Hussars is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester ^[23]
• The Household Cavalry Museum is based at Horse Guards in London ^[24]
• The Inns of Court & City Yeomanry Museum is based at Stone Buildings in London ^[25]
• The Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry Museum is at Hever Castle, Kent ^[26]
• The King's Own Royal Regiment Museum is part of the Lancaster City Museum in Lancaster ^[27]
• The King's Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum, is based at Berwick Barracks in Berwick-upon-Tweed ^[28]
• The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum is based at Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery in Doncaster ^[29]
• The King's Regiment Museum collection is displayed in the Museum of Liverpool ^[30]
• The Museum of the 14th/20th King's Hussars was in the Museum of Lancashire in Preston until it closed in 2016 ^[31]
• The Lancashire Infantry Museum (for the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment) is based at Fulwood Barracks in Preston ^[32]
• The Museum of the Adjutant General's Corps is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester ^[33]
• The Museum of the Manchesters was based at Ashton Town Hall but remains closed while the town hall is being redeveloped ^[34]
• The Middlesex Regiment museum, formerly in Bruce Castle, closed in 1992 and was absorbed into the National Army Museum ^[35]
• The Newcastle Discovery Museum includes the regimental museum of the Light Dragoons and the Northumberland Hussars ^[36]
• The Museum of the Northamptonshire Regiment is based at Abington Park ^[37]
• The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) is based at Woodstock, Oxfordshire ^[38]
• The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Museum is based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire ^[39]
• The Queen's & Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Regimental Museum is based at Dover Castle ^[40]
• The Queen's Own Hussars Museum is based at Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick ^[41]
• The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum is based at Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery in Maidstone ^[42]
• The Rifles Museum is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester ^[43]
• The Rifles Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum is based in Salisbury ^[44]
• The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum is based at Duxford in Cambridgeshire ^[45]
• The Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum is based on Fox Lines in Aldershot in Hampshire. ^[46]
• The REME Museum is based at MoD Lyneham ^[47]
• The Royal Engineers Museum is based at Gillingham in Kent ^[48]
• The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester ^[49]
• The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum is based at Lower Barracks in Winchester ^[50]
• The Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum is based at Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire ^[51]
• The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum is part of Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester ^[52]
• The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and Lincolnshire Yeomanry collections are displayed in Lincoln's Museum of Lincolnshire Life ^[53]
• The Royal Logistic Corps Museum is based at Princess Royal Barracks near Camberley in Surrey ^[54]
• The Royal Marines Museum is in the course of relocating to Portsmouth Dockyard ^[55]
• The Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum is based in Norwich Castle ^[56]
• The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) is based at St John's House in Warwick ^[57]
• The Royal Signals Museum is based at Blandford Camp in Dorset ^[58]
• The Royal Sussex Regiment Museum and that of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars is based at Eastbourne Redoubt in Sussex ^[59]
• The Sherwood Foresters Museum is based in Nottingham Castle ^[60]
• The Shropshire Regimental Museum is based at Shrewsbury Castle ^[61]
• The Soldier's Story Gallery (for the Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham and Derbyshire) Regiment, the 9th/12th Royal Lancers and the Derbyshire Yeomanry) is based at Derby Museum and Art Gallery ^[62]
• The Somerset Military Museum is based at Taunton Castle ^[63]
• The Staffordshire Regiment Museum is based at Whittington Barracks near Lichfield ^[64]
• The Suffolk Regiment Museum is based at Gibraltar Barracks in Bury St Edmunds ^[65]
• The Surrey Infantry Museum was based at Clandon Park House, near Guildford until it was destroyed in a fire in April 2015 ^[66]
• The Tank Museum, the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment, is at Bovington Camp in Dorset ^[67]
• The Worcester Soldier galleries (for the Worcestershire Regiment and the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars) is part of the Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum ^[68]
• The York and Lancaster Regimental Museum is based at Clifton Park in Rotherham ^[69]
• The York Army Museum (for the Royal Dragoon Guards, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Regiment) is based at the Tower Street drill hall in York ^[70]

Northern Ireland

• The Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum is based in Armagh ^[71]
• The Royal Ulster Rifles Museum is based in Belfast ^[72]
• The Inniskillings Museum (for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards) is based at Enniskillen Castle ^[73]

Scotland

• The Gordon Highlanders Museum is based in Aberdeen ^[74]
• The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum is based at Edinburgh Castle ^[75]
• The Museum of the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) and the Royal Regiment of Scotland is based at Edinburgh Castle ^[76]
• The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum is based at Stirling Castle ^[77]
• The Highlanders' Museum (for the Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)) is based at Fort George ^[78]
• The Black Watch Museum is based at Balhousie Castle in Perth ^[79]
• The Royal Highland Fusilier Museum (for the Royal Scots Fusiliers and the Highland Light Infantry) is based at Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow ^[80]
• The Cameronians Museum is part of the Low Parks Museum in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire ^[81]

Wales

• The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum is based at Caernarfon Castle ^[82]
• The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh (for the South Wales Borderers and the Monmouthshire Regiment) is based at The Barracks, Brecon ^[83]
• Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier (for the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards and the Royal Welsh) is based at Cardiff Castle ^[84]
• The regimental museum of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers is based in Monmouth Castle ^[85]

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External links

• Ogilby Trust listing of British Army museums