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Royal Armouries Museum
Armouries Drive
Leeds
LS10 1LT
Opening Times:
Open daily: 10am – 5pm
Closed 24-26 December
Admission is FREE
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Description:
The Royal Armouries is home to the United Kingdom’s national collection of arms and armour, including artillery. As a museum we have a duty of care for these objects, to keep them, study them and increase our knowledge of them, so that this can be passed to future generations along with the objects themselves.
The Royal Armouries tells real stories about the ways in which arms and armour have affected and continue to affect our communities.
Contact Details:
Tel: 0113 220 1888
educate.leeds@armouries.org.uk
Learning Programmes:
Just ask us!
Our Learning Team are extremely knowledgeable and passionate about the Royal Armouries collection. Their breadth and depth of knowledge is astounding, ranging from academic publications, family and local history, to Art Clubs and working with children under five.
Our Learning Team provides excellent kinaesthetic educational experiences which link to the National Strategies and Curricula but also provide cross-curricula links and promote creativity and enrichment learning.
Specialisms:
The Royal Armouries collection consists of some 70,000 examples of arms, armour and artillery dating from antiquity to the present day. It includes royal armours of the Tudor and Stuart kings; arms and armour of the English Civil Wars, including the Armoury from Littlecote House; British and foreign military weapons from the Board of Ordnance and MOD Pattern Room collections; hunting and sporting weapons, as well as an exceptional collection of oriental arms and armour.
The Royal Armouries also has a significant collection of fine and decorative arts, and a special collection of material relating to the Tower of London, including antique prints and drawings, paintings, early photographs, stereoscopes and lantern slides, and rare books.
The Royal Armouries library contains material relating to the history, development and use of arms, armour, artillery and fortifications, and to the Tower of London.
