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Royal Engineers Museum
The Royal Engineers Museum is a military engineering museum and library in Gillingham, Kent, England. It tells the story of the Corps of Royal Engineers and British military engineering in general.
The museum is housed in the former Ravelin Building at Brompton Barracks, Chatham. This site has been central to the Corps’ history since 1812 when Colonel Pasley’s School of Military Engineering was established at Chatham. The Corps’ Library followed in 1813 (still extant), and the Ravelin Building itself was erected in 1905 as an electrical engineers’ training school. It was designed by Captain (later Major) E.C.S. Moore, RE, and opened in 1905 at a construction cost of £40,000. In 1987 the Ravelin was converted into the Corps’ museum; Queen Elizabeth II formally opened the Royal Engineers Museum in May 1987.
The museum and library hold over 500,000 objects relating to the history of the Corps of Royal Engineers and the development of military engineering. It also has a collection of paintings and a large collection of medals including 25 Victoria Crosses. Other items include a German V-2 rocket used during the Second World War, the map used by the Duke of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo, a finial from the Mahdi's tomb, weapons used by Lieutenant John Chard during the Anglo-Zulu War, a collection of bridge-laying tanks, a Brennan torpedo and a Harrier jump jet.
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Royal Engineers Museum
The Royal Engineers Museum is a military engineering museum and library in Gillingham, Kent, England. It tells the story of the Corps of Royal Engineers and British military engineering in general.
The museum is housed in the former Ravelin Building at Brompton Barracks, Chatham. This site has been central to the Corps’ history since 1812 when Colonel Pasley’s School of Military Engineering was established at Chatham. The Corps’ Library followed in 1813 (still extant), and the Ravelin Building itself was erected in 1905 as an electrical engineers’ training school. It was designed by Captain (later Major) E.C.S. Moore, RE, and opened in 1905 at a construction cost of £40,000. In 1987 the Ravelin was converted into the Corps’ museum; Queen Elizabeth II formally opened the Royal Engineers Museum in May 1987.
The museum and library hold over 500,000 objects relating to the history of the Corps of Royal Engineers and the development of military engineering. It also has a collection of paintings and a large collection of medals including 25 Victoria Crosses. Other items include a German V-2 rocket used during the Second World War, the map used by the Duke of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo, a finial from the Mahdi's tomb, weapons used by Lieutenant John Chard during the Anglo-Zulu War, a collection of bridge-laying tanks, a Brennan torpedo and a Harrier jump jet.
This exhibits can be grouped as follows: