- Wikidata identifier:
- Q682917
- Also known as:
- Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum, The Royal Artillery Museum
- Instance of:
- museum; charitable organization
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum; Designated collection
- Accreditation number:
- 1706
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q682917/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Military Collection
Firepower! holds two museum collections, a major collection of artillery and a regimental collection relating to the Royal Artillery Regiment. The collection comprises nearly 900 guns, 450+ small arms and 2,500 pieces of ammunition, large collections of bayonets, communications equipment, instruments and other equipment ranging from flags to vehicles, plus numerous personal items such as over 2,400 uniforms and swords as well as badges, medals, awards and personal equipment, and an art collection comprising pictures, sculpture.
Subjects
Arms and Armour; Uniforms; Medals
James Clavell Library of the Royal Artillery Institution
The library consists of books, periodicals and other published works from the 16th century to the present day, covering artillery from the 13th century onwards. The archives, also stored at the Library, consist of pamphlets, manuals, personal and technical papers, photographs, documents, together with unit records from the 18th century to the present day. The archives contain over 5,000 individual collections. Material is received from a wide variety of sources, including RA units and establishments, members and ex-members of the Regiment, the Ministry of Defence and the general public.
Subjects
Tactics; Artillery
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC