John Winterburn finds a censored version of Jordan’s military history at the country’s national army museum. Sarh al-Shaheed, The Martyrs Memorial, sits like an acropolis on the hill overlooking the capital city, Amman. From the outside it is austere, presenting an […]
Museums
Museum – Le Musée de la Grande Guerre
Keith Robinson reports from France where he has been inspecting an architecturally fascinating WWI museum. North on the heights above the town of Meaux, a great slab of glass and concrete has recently appeared. This is France’s Museum of the Great War. Cantilevered out of the hillside it provides a covered area for community events […]
MUSEUM REVIEW – Aldershot Military Museum
Keith Robinson explores the military museum at the heart of the British Army’s Aldershot home. In a small corner of the great military complex that is North Camp, along the grand road that is Queens Avenue, lies the Aldershot Military Museum. This is a smallish local museum which, under the auspices of Hampshire County Council, […]
Museum of Army Flying
Keith Robinson finds much to see at a splendid museum of military aviation on windswept Salisbury Plain. Located in Hampshire, south-west of Andover and within sight of Danebury Iron Age Hillfort, the Museum of Army Flying lies within the grounds of the Army Air Corps airfield at Middle Wallop, one of the most important RAF […]
MUSEUM REVIEW – The Royal Marines Museum
Keith Robinson has just returned from a visit to another splendid military museum on the South Coast. The entrance to the car park for the Royal Marines Museum in Eastney, Portsmouth, is signalled by the large statue called the Yomper. It was officially unveiled by Margaret Thatcher to commemorate ‘all the Royal Marines and those […]
Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
Military History Monthly’s roving museum explorer Keith Robinson investigates another little-known military museum.
Museum of Naval Firepower
Military History Monthly’s roving museum explorer Keith Robinson visits a storehouse of naval ‘big bangs’. A lesser known museum on the Gosport side of Portsmouth Harbour is well worth a visit. As with the Royal Navy Submarine Museum nearby, the most fun way to get there is by using the Portsmouth Harbour waterbus service, which runs from April through September. This connects both museums […]
Royal Logistic Corps Museum, Surrey
Roving reporter Keith Robinson has discovered a splendid little museum hidden away in the Army’s traditional west Surrey home. The Royal Logistic Corps is a new formation, and its museum is housed appropriately in a new building on the campus of Princess Royal Barracks, close to Camberley and Aldershot, the Army’s traditional home in leafy […]
The National Submarine Museum, Gosport
This month, Keith Robinson finds a fitting memorial to the brave submariners of two world wars. Taking the Portsmouth Harbour waterbus is a suitably maritime way of getting to the National Submarine Museum at Gosport. Crossing the waters of one of the Royal Navy’s great homes sets the scene for landing directly on the quay […]