The Guards Museum is bringing history out from its cases and into your hands in a weekend you don’t want to miss! Better yet, it's FREE!
Highlights of your weekend will include a trip to the historic re-enactors camp, testing your aim with the Army Cadets, and the chance to immerse yourself in heritage – whether its handling objects from our collection, or stepping into the King’s Guard iconic uniforms yourself - all to the sounds of live music from Lancashire Belle! Our experts will be giving free museum and chapel talks, including guest speakers Jan Gore and Vic Keegan.
For the animal lovers, there will be the chance to Hawk and Learn with Jess the Hawk, and even meet & greet with the Irish Guards mascot - Irish Wolfhound Seamus and Drummer Aldridge.
As for this year’s theme, we are lucky to be surrounded by some of London’s most exceptional architecture. The museum sits on the site of Wellington Barracks, designed in the 1800s to give the Guards’ close proximity to Buckingham Palace in an emergency. It is here that the famous Changing of the Guard ceremony begins, as the soldiers’ set off for their duties. Just next door is the stunning Guards’ Chapel with its own story to tell, having been destroyed by V-1 flying bomb in the Second World War and rebuilt in the legacy of this tragedy.
We invite you to come along and uncover the secrets behind these structures, and of course dig deeper into the Guard’s internationally renowned role protecting some of the world’s most famous buildings – our Royal Palaces.
