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 REME Museum is based at MoD Lyneham [46]
The Royal Engineers Museum is based at Gillingham in Kent[47]
The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester [48]
The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum is based at Lower Barracks in Winchester [49]
The Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum is based at Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire[50] The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum is part of Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester [51]
The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and Lincolnshire Yeomanry collections are displayed in Lincoln's Museum of Lincolnshire Life [52]
The Royal Logistic Corps Museum is based at Princess Royal Barracks near Camberley in Surrey [53]
The Royal Marines Museum is in the course of relocating to Portsmouth Dockyard [54]
The Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum is based in Norwich Castle [55]
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) is based at St John's House in Warwick [56]
The Royal Signals Museum is based at Blandford Camp in Dorset [57]
The Royal Sussex Regiment Museum and that of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars is based at Eastbourne Redoubt in Sussex [58]
The Sherwood Foresters Museum is based in Nottingham Castle [59]
The Shropshire Regimental Museum is based at Shrewsbury Castle [60]
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 [61]
The Somerset Military Museum is based at Taunton Castle [62]
The Staffordshire Regiment Museum is based at Whittington Barracks near Lichfield [63]
The Suffolk Regiment Museum is based at Gibraltar Barracks in Bury St Edmunds [64]
The Surrey Infantry Museum was based at Clandon Park House , near Guildford until it was destroyed in a fire in April 2015[65]
The Tank Museum , the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment, is at Bovington Camp in Dorset [66] The Worcester Soldier galleries (for the Worcestershire Regiment and the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars ) is part of the Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum [67]
The York and Lancaster Regimental Museum is based at Clifton Park in Rotherham [68]
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 [69] Northern Ireland [ ] Scotland [ ] Wales [ ] References [ ]
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