Royal Armouries Website

PF 63

From 2008

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Royal Armouries website.

[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel links, please see the Arrangement field)]:

Royal Armouries (http://www.royalarmouries.org/home).

Royal Armouries (https://www.royalarmouries.org/home).

Royal Armouries (https://royalarmouries.org/home).

Please see information at Divisional level

This series contains more than one link to the 'snapshots' of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation's presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

See also: PF 64 PF 207

Public Record(s)

English

• Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017
• Royal Armouries, 1983-1983

archived website(s)

Open

Gathered from original website.

Topics

Official publications

Future website versions may be anticipated.

The Royal Armouries is the United Kingdom's National Museum of Arms and Armour, one of the largest collections of arms and armour in the world, comprising of the UK's National Collection of Arms and Armour, National Artillery Collection, and National Firearms Collection. The collection can trace its history back to the establishment of the Tower of London and as such can claim to be the oldest museum in the country.

As the museum?s collections continued to expand the Tower became too small to house it all properly. In 1988 the Royal Armouries took a lease on Fort Nelson, a large 19th-century artillery fort near Portsmouth. In 1990, after two years of preliminary research and deliberation, the decision was taken to establish a new museum in the north of England in which to house the bulk of the collection of world-wide arms and armour. This allowed the Royal Armouries in the Tower to concentrate upon the display and interpretation of those parts of the collection which directly relate to the Tower of London.