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Opening Hours
Sunday: 10:00 – 17:30
Tuesday: 10:00 – 17:30
Wednesday: 10:00 – 17:30
Thursday: 10:00 – 17:30
Friday: 10:00 – 17:30
Saturday: 10:00 – 17:30
What's not to miss inside?
Marengo’s Skeleton
Napoleon’s war horse, up closeCaptured after Waterloo, this small, tough Arabian carried a very big story.
📍 Permanent displays, Waterloo section
Soldier Stories
The Army at human scaleLetters, kit and portraits follow a life from enlistment to veterans’ memories.
📍 ‘Soldier’ gallery
Tactics Table
How formations win or failModels and screens show why squares beat cavalry—and when they didn’t.
📍 ‘Battle’ gallery, interactives
Play Base
Under-8s soft-play with a military twistCamouflage tunnels and mini-obstacles let energy burn while adults regroup.
📍 Ground floor, timed entry
🤓 Fun Facts
The star ‘celebrity’ is equine: Marengo, Napoleon’s horse, whose bones tell a different story to heroic paintings—he’s notably small.
The museum’s 2017 rebuild reorganised content around questions (Soldier, Army, Battle, Society, Insight) rather than a straight timeline.
You can touch more than you think—selected handling objects and interactives are designed to be used, not just looked at.
Free entry, but the wildly popular Play Base (ages 0–8) is ticketed—locals treat it like a membership perk.
