Fusiliers Museum

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Set within the Tower of London, this regimental museum follows the Royal Fusiliers from their 17th-century origins to the present. Uniforms, colours, weapons, silver and a renowned medal collection connect battlefield episodes—from Crimea to the World Wars—to the lives behind the regiment’s City of London title.

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Opening Hours

Monday: 10:00 – 16:00

Tuesday: 10:00 – 16:00

Wednesday: 10:00 – 16:00

Thursday: 10:00 – 16:00

Friday: 10:00 – 16:00

What's not to miss inside?

Medal & Gallantry Gallery

A concentrated record of service and sacrifice, including multiple Victoria Crosses awarded to the regiment.

Each group tells a precise story—rank, theatre, date—etched in metal and ribbon.

Choose one medal group and follow the citations’ places and dates across a campaign map.

📍 Upper display rooms

From Fusils to Modern Arms

The ‘Fusilier’ name comes from the fusil (a light flintlock) issued to artillery guards; later displays show percussion, bolt-action and automatic transitions.

Trigger, ignition and rate of fire shift with technology—and so do battlefield tactics.

Compare a flintlock lock-plate to a bolt-action rifle bolt; identify what changed in reload speed and reliability.

📍 Arms cases, main gallery

Colours, Drums & Silver

Regimental identity objects—embroidered colours, presentation drums and mess silver—carry battle honours and civic ties to the City of London.

Ceremonial objects double as archives: battle names are literally stitched and engraved into them.

Read a colour’s honours top to bottom; note how they compress centuries into a single textile.

📍 Central cases and wall hangs

City Battalions in World War I

Displays trace ‘City’ battalions raised from London trades and professions serving on the Western Front, Gallipoli and beyond.

Badges, trench maps and personal kit illuminate daily reality behind unit titles.

Match a shoulder title to a battalion history; find one trench map snippet linked to that unit’s sector.

📍 20th-century section

🤓 Fun Facts

The Royal Fusiliers were raised at the Tower of London in 1685 to guard the Board of Ordnance—hence the light ‘fusils’ suited to protecting artillery.

Under the 1881 Childers Reforms the unit became the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), formalising its civic identity with the Square Mile.

The museum occupies the regiment’s historic quarters inside the Tower precinct, linking the collection to its original garrison site.