• 10.00am - 5.30pm
  • FREE
  • Chelsea, London
  • 10.00am - 5.30pm
  • FREE
  • Chelsea, London

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Embroidered sabretache of the 8th (King’s Royal Irish) Light Dragoons, c1840
Course
15 March 2025 - 16 March 2025
£100.00

Embroidery Course: Irish Identity

Elevate your embroidery skills on this two-day course inspired by the Museum’s collection and led by experts from Hand & Lock, London’s premier embroidery house.
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Events

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Children attending a family friendly gallery tour
Tour At Museum

21 - 22 February 2025

FREE

Marching Orders: Duty in the Dark

Join us on a family friendly gallery tour this February half-term as we explore the work the Army performs under the cover of night.

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Recruiting posters on display in Formation gallery
Tour At Museum

22 February 2025, 11.00am

£2.00

Recruitment and Propaganda: BSL Tour

Follow expert guide Edward Richards on a British Sign Language (BSL) tour as he examines how propaganda and recruiting has impacted the British Army over the centuries.

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Tommy Roper character actor
Performance At Museum

23 February 2025

FREE

Soldier Stories: Tommy Roper

Meet characters, both real and imagined, from the Army’s past and hear their amazing stories in our galleries.

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Satirical print depicting a country squire starting back in horror at seeing his son dressed as a macaroni, 1774
Talk At Museum / Online

28 February 2025, 12.00pm

FREE

A Macaroni in the Barracks: Sexuality on Trial in Revolutionary America

Join John Gilbert McCurdy as he tells the story of Robert Newburgh, a British Army chaplain whose trial reveals the link between sexuality and revolution in the late 18th century.

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Shirley Hamilton character actor
Performance At Museum

2 March 2025

FREE

Soldier Stories: Shirley Hamilton

Meet characters, both real and imagined, from the Army’s past and hear their amazing stories in our galleries.

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‘Souvenir of the Great War’, embroidered postcard, c1917
Talk At Museum / Online

7 March 2025, 12.00pm

FREE

Veterans, Families, Museums and Mementos

Dr Ann-Marie Foster will discuss the relationships between museums, their objects and war.

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Exhibitions and displays

A collage of Soldier Magazine covers
Now open
Display At Museum

4 February - 6 July 2025

FREE

The Story of Soldier Magazine

For 80 years, the journalists of ‘Soldier’ magazine have stood side by side with British Army troops to record seminal moments in our history. The short film in this display celebrates that contribution.

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