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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).
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
Scotland
Wales
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