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General Military Museums

The Royal Armouries Museum
www.armouries.org.uk
Armouries Drive,
Leeds
England
One of the finest collections of weaponry and armour on display anywhere.
 
Imperial War Museum
www.iwm.org.uk
Lambeth Road,
London
England
SE1 6HZ
The UK's main museum dedicated to war in the 20th Century. Also has links to IWM Duxford and it's excellent collection of military aircraft.
 
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
www.historicdockyard.co.uk
Portsmouth
England
Many important naval exhibits including HMS Victory itself, HMS Warrior and The Mary Rose, King Henry VIII's flagship.
 
The D-Day Museum
www.ddaymuseum.co.uk
Clarence Esplanade,
Southsea,
England
PO5 3NT
Britains only museum dedicated to the Normandy landings in 1944
Yorkshire Air Museum
www.yorkshireairmuseum.co.uk
Halifax Way,
Elvington,
York,
England
YO41 4AU
Allied Air Forces Memorial and authentic WWII Bomber Command station. Also contains a section dedicated to air gunners and an exhibition on the 617 Sqn Dam Busters raid.
North East Aircraft Museum
www.neam.org.uk
Old Washington Road,
Sunderland,
Tyne & Wear,
England
SR5 3HZ
Small but important collection of military aircraft, many in the process of restoration. The have one of the few Avro Vulcans on display and are restoring an Argentine Pucara from the Falklands War. Easily accessible from the A19.
The Aldershot Military Museum
Evelyn Woods Road,
Aldershot,
Hants,
England
A small but well presented museum with a running Chieftain Tank.
 
Musee de l'Armee
Les Invalides,
Paris,
France
The French national army museum, and a must for anyone researching France's long and illustrious military history.
The Muckleburgh Collection
www.muckleburgh.co.uk
Weybourne Military Camp,
Weybourne,
Holt,
Norfolk,
NR25 7EG
Britains largest, privately-owned working military museum, with an interesting collection of tanks and other military vehicles. Situated on the North Norfolk coast.
The Bosworth Battlefield Visitors Centre and Country Park
http://www.leics.gov.uk/country_parks_bosworth
Sutton Cheney,
Nuneaton,
Warwickshire,
CV13 OAD
An excellent museum on battle during the Wars of the Roses along with very pleasant walks across the traditional site of the battle.
The Newcastle Military Vehicle Museum
http://www.military-museum.org.uk/
EXHIBITION PARK PAVILION
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE2 4PZ
England
Tel: 0191 281 7222
A museum of WW2 and other militaria created by members of the North East Military Vehicle Club within the historical, last remaining Pavilion of the 1929 North East Coast Exhibition .
Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum
http://www.segedunum.com/
Buddle Street
Wallsend
Tyne and Wear
NE28 6HR
England
Tel: 0191 295 5757
A museum of Roman life, including a reconstructed bath house and excellent 34 metre high viewing platform over the fort's remains.
Mills Militaria
http://www.millsmilitaria.co.uk/

A website supporting the Annual Military Vehicle Show at the Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey. A good source of information about the show itself, and photographs of some of the vehicles on display there last year.
 
 

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