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1. Museum History
The Royal Armouries is Britain’s oldest museum, and one of the oldest museums in the world.
2. Leeds History
The history of the Royal Armouries from 1996, in its new purpose built museum in Leeds
3. Leeds Events
Summer holiday events for all the family.
Click here for more information about current events in Leeds.
4. History of the Collection
A history of the Royal Armouries and its collection from its founding in the Tower of London to the present day.
5. Conference & Event Facilities
The Royal Armouries also provides corporate and conference facilities at Fort Nelson and Leeds.
6. Art and Design
A specialist art handling collection is available for students to use, including vintage and antique military uniforms, civilian fashions and ephemera. All sessions include objects from our handling collection and are accessible to all ages and abilities.
7. AS and A Level
The Royal Armouries education centre in Leeds offers a unique opportunity to students studying at A level and AS level. You’ll have the opportunity to work with archive material and study real objects.
8. English and Drama
At the Royal Armouries Education Centre in Leeds we can offer informative or hands on workshops, creative spaces and innovative starting points. We are happy to tailor make a session to fit the needs of your AS and A level students.
9. History
These taught seminars, combine a presentation with first hand study of original and replica artefacts for a minimum of 15 students. Our Seminar Studies put AS and A2 students in touch with original archives as well as objects.
10. Art and Design
The museum in Leeds offers a range of innovative and creative educational workshops for students of art and design. This multicultural collection can provide inspiration for a huge range of topics, themes and processes to be researched and re-interpreted.
11. Self-Led Visits
Our museum is an ideal site for exploring topics in History, Art and Design, English and Local History. There is no single route through its galleries giving you the freedom to plan your groups’ activities.
12. Maps to Museum
Route maps to Royal Armouries Leeds for visitors to download and print out.
13. Museum Director - Operations
Museum Director is tasked with delivering a successful, visitor-focused, educational heritage attraction, maximising quality of service and display.
14. Leeds
Information for teachers and others planning a group educational visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
15. Home Front and Front Line: 1914-1918
Investigate the home front with rarely seen panoramic photographs of a national filling factory at Chilwell and discover how Leeds company Greenwood and Batley contributed to the war effort and profited by it.
16. Manager Military and Modern Firearms
37.5 hours per week, 5 days out of 7
£25,000 per annum
Based in Leeds
17. Home
Royal Armouries – National Museum of Arms and Armour, keeper of Tower of London history, and the National Collection of Artillery. Museums in Leeds, West Yorkshire; Tower of London; and Fareham, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
18. Curator's talks
As some of the world’s leading authorities in their fields, our curators can give talks to groups with a passion for a particular subject.
19. See us on Flickr
Our visitors love taking pictures of our museums and our fantastic objects. Now you can enjoy them too, using the Flickr® slideshow share function. Select one of our museums and see what our visitors love most about our museums and our beautiful objects.
20. Leeds on Flickr
Explore the slideshow of photos found on Flickr® of our museum in Leeds.
21. Visit
Visitor information for all four of the Royal Armouries sites.
22. Registrar
37.5 hours per week, 5 days out of 7
£22,469 per annum
Based in Leeds
36 Events
1. Beyond Calculation
Throughout the month of November the names of the 10,000 men from Leeds who’s lives were lost during the First World War will be read out.
2. Remember, Reflect, Re-act
This month is an opportunity to think about the way people’s lives have been affected by war, both in the past and through to the present day.
3. Armistice Day
The 90th Anniversary of Armistice Day.
4. Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Sunday poppy drop.
5. Trench Warfare
A talk and handling session on Trench Warfare.
6. Cadet 150
Join C Company, Corp of Drums, Army Cadet Force as they celebrate 150 years of the Cadet movement.7. Remember, Reflect, React
A month of remembrance for all those who sacrificed so much, and a chance to reflect on the consequences of warfare.
8. Remember, Reflect, React
A month of remembrance for all those who sacrificed so much, and a chance to reflect on the consequences of warfare.
9. Remembrance Interpretations
Interpretations honour the dead of all wars, across all the ages, who have have nobly sacrificed their lives for a cause.
10. Remembrance Interpretations
Interpretations honour the dead of all wars, across all the ages, who have have nobly sacrificed their lives for a cause.
11. For the Fallen
A reading aloud from the Roll of Honour those members of Leeds citizenry who gave their lives during the Second World War.
12. For the Fallen
A reading aloud from the Roll of Honour those members of Leeds citizenry who gave their lives during the Second World War.
13. Have-a-Go Sword Fighting
Come and learn sword fighting with Royal Armouries sword fighters.
14. Have-a-Go Sword Fighting
Come and learn sword fighting with Royal Armouries sword fighters.
15. Have-a-Go Sword Fighting
Come and learn sword fighting with Royal Armouries sword fighters.
16. Have-a-Go Sword Fighting
Come and learn sword fighting with Royal Armouries sword fighters.
17. Dragons' Den
Explore the mystical East and discover treasures from Japan and China.
18. SPIES & SECRET AGENTS
School holiday activities for families.
19. MOTHER'S DAY
Treat your Mum to a right royal day out!
20. NAPOLEONIC WEEKEND
Bringing history to life.
21. PIRATES
School holiday activities for families.
22. Adult Art Workshop: Introduction to printing
90 minute adult art workshop programme will introduce you a variety of inspiring and creative classes. Led by our specialised tutor, these workshops are small, friendly and relaxed. All materials provided.
23. Adult Art Workshop: Introduction to felt making
90 minute adult art workshop programme will introduce you a variety of inspiring and creative classes. Led by our specialised tutor, these workshops are small, friendly and relaxed. All materials provided.
24. DUELLING WEAPONS
An introduction to the art and social history of duelling and a closer look at the duellist’s weapons of choice and their origins.
25. INDIAN SWORDS
Explore the diversity of Indian swords from the talwar to the firanghi, the katar to the khanjar.
26. Working Together
One-day MLA, ITT event for museum and archive education professionals.
27. The Real Iron Men
Forget Hollywood, forget special effects, forget CGI – come and see real iron men in real 3D doing battle live in front of your eyes.
28. Father’s Day
With Armouries Square full of vintage vehicles, and knights clashing in the Father’s Day joust – it’s time to bring your Dad to see our big boys’ toys!
29. British Armed Forces Day
Show your support for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community.
30. The King's Challenge
Have you got what it takes to be a King’s Challenge Champion?s.
31. Blitz Weekend
70 years on from one of the darkest and most heroic times in the nation’s history we celebrate the spirit of the age through 1940s music, food and dance.
32. English Civil War Weekend
An interactive insight into life in the 17th century. Meet soldiers from both sides of the divide, take part in military drills, experience live cannon firings and thrilling cavalry displays.
33. Medi-Evil Mayhem!
Dare you visit the museum this half term? Fun activities for families.
34. Remember Reflect React
Special events throughout this month of remembrance.
35. 20th-Century Warfare
Military vehicle display
36. Wartime Christmas
Even in the midst of war Christmas could raise the spirits of those in battle. Join us to celebrate the festivities with warriors through the ages.
12 Press Releases
1. Send your kids to Spy Skool this half term
Have you got what it takes to crack the codes and be a super sleuth? Come and test your spy skills at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, and beat the half-term holiday blues. (February 13 to 21).
2. Explore the mysteries of the East this weekend in Leeds
Banish the last of the January blues and discover treasures from Japan and China at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, this weekend (January 30 and 31).
3. We will remember them
Britain’s oldest museum pays tribute to the nation’s war dead during November in a poignant month of Remembrance.
4. Royal Armouries to host major international conference in Leeds
Experts from around the world will travel to the Royal Armouries (RA) in Leeds for a major international conference on the study of Renaissance arms and armour.
5. Royal Armouries backs the bid to “bring football home”
The Royal Armouries in Leeds is adding its voice to the hundreds of local people, businesses and organisations that are hoping to bring the World Cup party to West Yorkshire, with games being played at Leeds United’s Elland Road.
6. Showcase movie exhibition puts Royal Armouries in the running for a tourism Oscar
Britain’s oldest museum, the Royal Armouries in Leeds, is in the running for a Yorkshire tourism award following the success of its exciting exhibition – Arms and Armour from the Movies: The Wonderful World of Weta.
7. Unique “hand cannon” on show at Royal Armouries in Leeds
A unique “hand cannon” – measuring less than 10 inches long and dating to the late 14th or early 15th Century – has been gifted to the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds.
8. Royal Armouries Museum to host one-day event for museum and archive education professionals
A one-day event on May 6 for museum and archive education professionals. Led by speakers from three different ITT providers, the free event also examines the ways in which ITT Institutions and museums and archives have worked together.
9. Six impressive cannon go on display at Britain’s oldest museum
Six newly-restored cannon are due to be unveiled at the Royal Armouries (RA) Museum, Leeds, on Thursday 22 April – creating a “wow factor” as visitors arrive at Clarence Dock.
10. Live and Dangerously Entertaining the Real Iron Men
Forget the glamour and glitz of Hollywood! At the Royal Armouries there are no special effects or CGI – just real iron men in full on live combat, doing battle in front of your eyes.
11. Ann Green receives CBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Armouries, Ann Green, receives CBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
12. The Royal Armouries rolls out its big boys’ toys for Fathers’ Day
The Royal Armouries has lined up an action-packed programme of events to mark the Fathers’ Day weekend, including authentic medieval jousting on Saturday and Sunday (June 19 and 20), falconry displays, and “have a go” sword sessions for the kids.