Household Cavalry Museum

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Part living barracks, part museum, this is Britain’s mounted guard seen from the inside. In historic Horse Guards, you look through a glass wall into working stables, then handle the kit that turns rider and horse into a single ceremonial unit. Exhibits knit pageantry to combat reality: breastplates and plumes beside campaign stories. Time your visit with the mounted guard change outside and the whole site becomes a 360° lesson in how tradition still runs on drill, rehearsal and horse sense.

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Opening Hours

Sunday: 10:00 – 17:00

Monday: 10:00 – 17:00

Tuesday: 10:00 – 17:00

Wednesday: 10:00 – 17:00

Thursday: 10:00 – 17:00

Friday: 10:00 – 17:00

Saturday: 10:00 – 17:00

Admissions

Adult £14.00

Child £5.00

Concession £9.00

Student £9.00

What's not to miss inside?

Stables Window

A working regiment on show

Grooming, tack and quiet routine—catch the rhythm behind the spectacle.

Pause at the far end: you’ll see kit checks and tiny rituals of care.

📍 Main gallery, glass viewing wall

Dress & Armour

Ceremony engineered

Helmets, cuirasses and boots are tools as much as symbols—weight, balance and shine have jobs to do.

Look for wear marks and repairs; they’re the best teachers.

📍 Uniform cases

Trumpeters & Kettledrums

Orders you can hear

Sound carries commands across a moving parade—silver glint is only half the story.

Trace where a call would carry across Horse Guards.

📍 Music & parade displays

On Duty Outside

Living tradition

The mounted guard changes daily—precision built from endless practice.

Arrive a little early; watch the handover and the crowd dynamics.

📍 Horse Guards Arch, Whitehall

🤓 Fun Facts

This isn’t a set—those are real working stables behind the glass, used by the Household Cavalry on duty at Horse Guards.

The museum sits inside Horse Guards, the official entrance to the royal household since the 18th century—ceremony and office share a roof.

Two regiments make the Household Cavalry: The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals—museum displays mix their kit, colours and histories.

The mounted guard on Whitehall is changed daily; time your visit and the museum becomes the best backstage pass in London.

Those mirrored breastplates aren’t just pretty—they amplify posture cues and line-keeping, so a parade ‘reads’ cleanly from hundreds of metres away.

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