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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Regimental Museums.