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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).

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  • The Army Medical Services Museum is based at Mytchett in Surrey{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/searches/locresult_details.asp?LR=1115 | title=Museum of Military Medicine | location=UK | publisher=The National Archives | work= ARCHON Directory | accessdate=31 December 2013}}
  • 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{{cite web|url=http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museum/royal-devon-yeomanry/ |title=Royal Devon Yeomanry |publisher=Ogilby Trust|accessdate=11 June 2018}}
  • The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment gallery is part of Wardown Park Museum in Luton{{cite web|url=https://www.lutonculture.com/wardown-house/galleries-and-exhibitions/hertfordshire-and-bedfordshire-regiment-gallery/|title=The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Gallery|publisher=Luton Culture|accessdate=2 June 2018}}
  • The Border Regiment and its successors have a gallery at Cumbria's Museum of Military Life in Carlisle Castle{{cite web|url=https://www.cumbriasmuseumofmilitarylife.org/|title=Welcome|publisher=Cumbria's Museum of Military Life|accessdate=2 June 2018}}
  • 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{{cite web|url=https://ns.cccds.co.uk/main.cfm?objectid=2390 |title=Canterbury City Council Online |date=4 September 2000 |work=Unique national museum link for Canterbury |publisher=CCC |accessdate=20 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823111547/https://ns.cccds.co.uk/main.cfm?objectid=2390 |archivedate=23 August 2011 |df=dmy }}
  • The Cheshire Military Museum (for The Cheshire Regiment, 3rd Carabiniers, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards and Cheshire Yeomanry) is based at Chester Castle{{Citation | url = http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museums/0000000024-Cheshire-Military-Museum.htm| title = Cheshire Military Museum| accessdate = 18 February 2011| publisher = Army Museums Ogilby Trust }}
  • The Devonshire and Dorset regimental collections are displayed in the Keep Military Museum, Dorchester{{cite web|url=http://www.keepmilitarymuseum.org/thekeep.php?&dx=1&ob=3|title=The Keep Today|publisher=The Keep Military Museum|accessdate=26 May 2014}}
  • The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry regimental collections are displayed at Cornwall's Regimental Museum at Victoria Barracks in Bodmin{{cite web|url=https://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museum/cornwalls-regimental-museum/|title=Cornwall's Regimental Museum|publisher=Ogilby Trust|accessdate=26 May 2014}}
  • The Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum is based at Bankfield House, in Halifax, Yorkshire{{cite web|url=http://www.aboutbritain.com/BankfieldMuseum.htm|title=AboutBritain.com|work=Bankfield Museum|accessdate=11 July 2009}}
  • The DLI Museum in Durham closed in 2016{{cite web|url=http://savethedli.org.uk/hello-world|title=Welcome to the 'Save the DLI Museum' Campaign|date=4 November 2015 |publisher=Save the DLI|accessdate=2 June 2018}}
  • The East Yorkshire regimental collection is housed in Wilberforce House, Hull.{{cite web|url=https://www.hcandl.co.uk/museums-and-galleries/wilberforce-house/wilberforce-house-galleries|title=Wilberforce House Galleries|publisher=Hull City Council|accessdate=18 November 2019}}
  • The Essex Regiment Museum is based at Oaklands Park in Chelmsford{{cite web|url=http://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/museums |publisher=Chelmsford Borough Council|title=Chelmsford Museums|accessdate=2 June 2018}}
  • Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum was based at Woolwich until it closed in 2016{{cite web|title=Press release|url=http://www.salisburyplainheritagecentre.com/firepower_closure.pdf|website=Firepower museum|accessdate=10 August 2016}}
  • The Fusilier Museum (Lancashire) is based in Bury, Greater Manchester{{cite web |url= http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/special_reports/buryfusiliermuseum/4652692.The_Duke_of_Kent_performs_official_opening_of_Fusilier_Museum/|title= The Duke of Kent performs official opening of Fusilier Museum|accessdate=29 December 2011|publisher=Bury Times|year=2009}}
  • The Fusiliers Museum (London) is based in the Tower of London{{cite web|url=http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org/|title=Raised at the Tower of London in 1685|publisher=The Fusilier Museum|accessdate=17 January 2016}}
  • The Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland is based in Alnwick Castle{{cite web|url=https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/museum-enlists-force-of-model-recruits-1-1487988|title=Museum enlists force of model recruits|date=23 September 2004|publisher=Northumberland Gazette|accessdate=2 June 2018}}
  • The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum (Gloucestershire Regiment and Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) is based at the historic docks in Gloucester{{cite web|url=https://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museum/soldiers-of-gloucestershire-museum/|title=Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum|publisher=Ogilby Museums|accessdate=2 June 2018}}
  • The Green Howards Regimental Museum is based in Richmond, North Yorkshire{{cite web|url=http://www.greatnorthernpublishing.co.uk/green-howard-magazine/gh-museum.html|title=Green Howards Regimental Museum|publisher=Great Northern Publishing|accessdate=2 June 2018}}
  • The Guards Museum is based at Wellington Barracks in London{{cite web|url=https://www.householddivision.org.uk/guards-museum-overview|title=Guards Museum Overview|publisher=Household Division|accessdate=2 June 2018}}
  • The Gurkha Museum is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofwinchester.co.uk/Museums/Military/Gurkha/gurkha.html|title=The Gurkha Museum|publisher=City of Winchester|accessdate=2 June 2018}}
  • The Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum is based in Hereford{{cite web|title=Official site|url=http://herefordshirelightinfantrymuseum.com/|publisher=Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum|accessdate=15 March 2015}}
  • The Honourable Artillery Company Museum is at Armoury House in London{{cite web|url=http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museums/0000000044-honourable-artillery-company.htm |title=Honourable Artillery Company Museum|publisher=Ogilby Trust|accessdate=3 June 2018}}
  • HorsePower: The Museum of the King's Royal Hussars is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester{{cite web|url=http://horsepowermuseum.co.uk/?page_id=73|title=The museum|publisher=Horsepower|accessdate=29 July 2016}}
  • The Household Cavalry Museum is based at Horse Guards in London{{cite web |url=http://www.householdcavalrymuseum.co.uk/ |title=The Household Cavalry Museum |author= |date= |website=www.householdcavalrymuseum.co.uk |publisher= |access-date=11 October 2017 }}
  • The Inns of Court & City Yeomanry Museum is based at Stone Buildings in London{{cite web|url=http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museums/0000000047-Inns-of-Court-and-City-Yeomanry-Museum.htm|title=Inns of Court and City Yeomanry Museum|publisher=Ogilby Trust|accessdate=26 May 2014}}
  • The Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry Museum is at Hever Castle, Kent{{cite web|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=407172 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126062347/http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=407172 |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 November 2015 |title=Hever Castle |publisher= Pastscape|accessdate=3 June 2018}}
  • The King's Own Royal Regiment Museum is part of the Lancaster City Museum in Lancaster{{cite web|url=http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/museum02.htm |title=Introduction and History |publisher=King's Own Royal Regiment Museum |accessdate=16 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402105716/http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/museum02.htm |archivedate= 2 April 2015 }}
  • The King's Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum, is based at Berwick Barracks in Berwick-upon-Tweed{{cite web|url=http://www.kosb.co.uk/museum.htm|title=Regimental Museum|publisher=King's Own Scottish Borderers Association|accessdate=25 May 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628015309/http://www.kosb.co.uk/museum.htm|archivedate=28 June 2014|df=dmy-all}}
  • The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum is based at Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery in Doncaster{{cite web|url=http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museums/0000000055-King-s-Own-Yorkshire-Light-Infantry-Museum-Collection.htm|title=King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum Collection|publisher=Ogilby Trust|accessdate=13 March 2016}}
  • The King's Regiment Museum collection is displayed in the Museum of Liverpool{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/visit/galleries/soldiers/index.aspx|title=City Soldiers|publisher=Museum of Liverpool|accessdate=3 June 2018}}
  • The Museum of the 14th/20th King's Hussars was in the Museum of Lancashire in Preston until it closed in 2016{{cite web|url=http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/media/464583/Access-statement-Museum-of-Lancashire.pdf|title=Access Statement for the Museum of Lancashire|publisher=Lancashire County Council|accessdate=3 June 2018|pages=4–5}}
  • The Lancashire Infantry Museum (for the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment) is based at Fulwood Barracks in Preston{{cite web|title=Official site|url=http://www.lancashireinfantrymuseum.org.uk/|publisher=Lancashire Infantry Museum|accessdate=16 March 2015}}
  • The Museum of the Adjutant General's Corps is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester{{cite web|url=https://www.rhqagc.com/museum.html|title= Museum of the Adjutant General's Corps|publisher=Adjutant General's Corps Regimental Association|accessdate=4 June 2018}}
  • The Museum of the Manchesters was based at Ashton Town Hall but remains closed while the town hall is being redeveloped{{cite web|url= https://www.tameside.gov.uk/museumsgalleries/mom/|title=Museum of the Manchester Regiment|publisher=Tameside Council|accessdate=4 June 2018}}
  • The Middlesex Regiment museum, formerly in Bruce Castle, closed in 1992 and was absorbed into the National Army Museum{{citation|year=1976|title=Tottenham: Manors|journal=A History of the County of Middlesex|publisher=Victoria County History|volume=5|pages=324–330|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=26987|accessdate=23 March 2009}}
  • The Newcastle Discovery Museum includes the regimental museum of the Light Dragoons and the Northumberland Hussars{{cite web|url=http://www.lightdragoons.org.uk/museum.html|title=Charge! The story of England's Northern Cavalry|publisher=Light Dragoons|accessdate=2 June 2018}}
  • The Museum of the Northamptonshire Regiment is based at Abington Park{{cite web|url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3VG1_Abington_Park_Manor_House_Northampton |title=History of Abington Park Manor House|publisher=Waymarking|accessdate=4 June 2018}}
  • The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) is based at Woodstock, Oxfordshire{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-29361105 | title=Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum opened by Princess Royal | work=BBC News | publisher=BBC | location=UK | date=25 September 2014 | accessdate=28 December 2015 }}
  • The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Museum is based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire{{cite book|title=Airborne Assault: Stories of men who go to war from the air|first=Robert J |last=Kershaw|year=2008|publisher= Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Museum}}
  • The Queen's & Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Regimental Museum is based at Dover Castle{{cite web|url= http://www.1queens.co.uk/museum.html|title= Queen's & PWRR Regiment Museum|publisher=1st Battalion the Queen’s Regiment|accessdate=5 June 2018}}
  • The Queen's Own Hussars Museum is based at Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick{{cite web|url= http://qrhmuseum.uk/home|title= Queen's Own Hussars Museum|accessdate=5 June 2018}}
  • The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum is based at Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery in Maidstone{{cite web|url=https://museum.maidstone.gov.uk/our-museums/queens-own/ |title=Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum|publisher=Maidstine Museum|accessdate=5 June 2018}}
  • The Rifles Museum is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15357613.military-might-on-show-to-mark-armed-forces-day-in-winchester/|title=Military might on show to mark Armed Forces Day in Winchester|date=20 June 2017|publisher=Daily Echo}}
  • The Rifles Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum is based in Salisbury{{cite web|url=https://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museum/rifles-berkshire-wiltshire-museum/|title=The Rifles Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum|publisher=Ogilby Museums|accessdate=6 June 2018}}
  • The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum is based at Duxford in Cambridgeshire{{Cite web |url=http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/royal_anglian_memorial_unveiled_we_will_never_forget_their_sacrifices_1_1156020 |title=Royal Anglian memorial unveiled: we will never forget their sacrifices |author=Collett, Amy |date=14 September 2010 |work=PeterboroughToday.co.uk |publisher=Johnston Publishing Limited |accessdate=28 September 2010}}
  • The Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum is based on Fox Lines in Aldershot in Hampshire.{{cite web|url=https://www.raptcmuseum.co.uk/|title= Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum|access-date=23 June 2024}}
  • The REME Museum is based at MoD Lyneham{{cite web|url=http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/14212213.New_REME_Museum_moves_into_new_home_in_Lyneham/|title=New REME Museum moves into new home in Lyneham|date=18 January 2016|publisher=Gazette and Herald|accessdate=23 June 2018}}
  • The Royal Engineers Museum is based at Gillingham in Kent{{cite web|url= https://kentattractions.co.uk/attractions/royal-engineers-museum/|title=Royal Engineers Museum|publisher=Kent Attractions|accessdate=7 June 2018}}
  • The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum is based at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester{{cite web|url= http://www.visitwinchester.co.uk/royal-green-jackets-rifles-museum|title= Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum|publisher=Visit Winchester|accessdate=7 June 2018}}
  • The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum is based at Lower Barracks in Winchester{{cite web|url=http://www.royalhampshireregiment.org/about-the-museum/what-is-at-the-royal-hampshire-regiment-museum/|title=What is in the Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum?|publisher=Royal Hampshire Regiment|accessdate=8 June 2018}}
  • The Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum is based at Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-14295666|title=Charge of the Light Brigade bugle stars at new museum|publisher=BBC|date=26 July 2011|accessdate=5 June 2018}}
  • The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum is part of Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester{{cite web|url=https://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museum/royal-leicestershire-regiment/|title=Newarke Houses Museum|publisher=Ogilby Trust|accessdate=8 June 2018}}
  • The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and Lincolnshire Yeomanry collections are displayed in Lincoln's Museum of Lincolnshire Life{{cite web|url= https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/heritage-and-tourism/museum-of-lincolnshire-life/about-the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life/100770.article|title=About the Museum of Lincolnshire Life|publisher=Lincolnshire County Council|accessdate=8 June 2018}}
  • The Royal Logistic Corps Museum is based at Princess Royal Barracks near Camberley in Surrey{{cite web|url= http://www.royallogisticcorps.co.uk/heritage/museum/ |title= Welcome |publisher= Royal Logistic Corps Museum|accessdate=8 June 2018}}
  • The Royal Marines Museum is in the course of relocating to Portsmouth Dockyard{{cite web|url=http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defence/royal-marines-museum-to-be-moved-to-new-home-in-portsmouth-historic-dockyard-1-5596746|title=Royal Marines Museum to be moved to new home in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard|publisher=Portsmouth News|date=17 October 2013|accessdate=22 May 2016}}
  • The Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum is based in Norwich Castle{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-14292962 |publisher=BBC Norfolk News |date=26 July 2011|title=Royal Norfolk Museum Moves to Norwich Castle|accessdate=24 January 2016}}
  • The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) is based at St John's House in Warwick{{cite web|url=http://www.warwickfusiliers.co.uk/|title=Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Warwickshire), St John's House, Warwick|accessdate=30 January 2012}}
  • The Royal Signals Museum is based at Blandford Camp in Dorset{{cite web|url=https://www.royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk/about-us/|title=About us|publisher=Royal Signals Museum|accessdate=8 June 2018}}
  • The Royal Sussex Regiment Museum and that of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars is based at Eastbourne Redoubt in Sussex{{cite web |url=http://www.sussexmuseums.co.uk/find-a-museum/eastbourne/eastbourne-redoubt-fortress-and-museum/ |title=Eastbourne Redoubt – Fortress and Museum |date= |website=www.sussexmuseums.co.uk |publisher=Sussex Museums Group |access-date=20 January 2018 }}
  • The Sherwood Foresters Museum is based in Nottingham Castle{{cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a/A13530708|title=Sherwood Foresters Regimental Museum|publisher=National Archives|accessdate=8 June 2018}}
  • The Shropshire Regimental Museum is based at Shrewsbury Castle{{National Heritage List for England |num=1246877 |access-date=8 June 2008}}
  • 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{{cite news|url=http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Soldiers-8217-Story-gallery-celebrates-Derby-s/story-27585377-detail/story.html|title=Soldiers' Story gallery celebrates Derby's 300-year link with the Lancers|first=Zena|last=Hawley|work=Derby Telegraph|date=11 August 2015}}
  • The Somerset Military Museum is based at Taunton Castle{{cite web|title=Somerset Military Museum|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/searches/locresult_details.asp?LR=868|work=Archon Directory|publisher=British National Archives|accessdate=18 January 2011}}
  • The Staffordshire Regiment Museum is based at Whittington Barracks near Lichfield{{cite web|url=http://www.staffordshireregimentmuseum.com/ |title=No frills but plenty of guts|publisher=The Staffordshire Regiment Museum|accessdate= 22 October 2011}}
  • The Suffolk Regiment Museum is based at Gibraltar Barracks in Bury St Edmunds{{cite web|url=http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museums/0000000141-Suffolk-Regiment-Museum.htm|title=Suffolk Regiment Museum|publisher=Ogilby Trust|accessdate=18 April 2014}}
  • The Surrey Infantry Museum was based at Clandon Park House, near Guildford until it was destroyed in a fire in April 2015{{cite web |url=http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/new_museum/new_museum.shtml |title=Surrey Infantry Museum at Clandon Park |publisher=The Queen's Royal Surrey Regimental Association |accessdate=22 October 2012}}
  • The Tank Museum, the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment, is at Bovington Camp in Dorset{{cite web|url=http://www.tankmuseum.org/about-us/history|title=Museum history|publisher=The Tank Museum|accessdate=10 June 2018}}
  • The Worcester Soldier galleries (for the Worcestershire Regiment and the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars) is part of the Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum{{cite web|url=https://www.visitworcestershire.org/place/worcester-city-art-gallery-museum-worcestershire-soldier-galleries/|title=Worcester Soldier galleries|publisher=Visit Worcestershire|accessdate=10 June 2018}}
  • The York and Lancaster Regimental Museum is based at Clifton Park in Rotherham{{cite web|url=http://cliftonpark.org.uk/cpm/homepage/27/york_and_lancaster_regimental_museum|title=York and Lancaster Regimental Museum|publisher=Clifton Park|accessdate=10 June 2018}}
  • 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{{cite web|url=https://www.hlf.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/york-army-museum-wins-heritage-lottery-fund-support|title=The York Army Museum wins Heritage Lottery Fund support|date=9 December 2012|accessdate=16 December 2017}}

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External links

{{Wikivoyage|Regimental Museums}}

  • [http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/index.htm Ogilby Trust listing of British Army museums]

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