About us
As the National Museum of Arms and Armour, Royal Armouries is Britain's oldest public museum and traces its roots to the Tower of London. Royal Armouries is home to the national collections of arms and armour, including artillery, and to the National Firearms Centre. The collection is split across three UK sites – Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds; its ancestral home at the Tower of London; and Fort Nelson near Portsmouth. It is the only UK museum to have a permanent presence in the US at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. It is the only UK museum to have a permanent presence in the US at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
Royal Armouries is the United Kingdom’s National Museum 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.
This knowledge can be shared with others who also collect arms and armour, we are actively involved with and support a number of groups committed to the study of the subject and its practical applications. As such we offer an enquiry service to the public and the commercial world alike and have often acted as consultants on a number of film and television projects.