Royal Naval Museum

The Royal Naval Museum, in Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard is the only museum devoted to the ships of the Royal Navy and the men and women who served in them.

The aim of the Royal Naval Museum is to offer the British public of all ages and to visitors from overseas, an understanding of both the importance of the Royal Navy to the history of Britain and of the decisive influence that the service has had on the shaping of our national identity, customs and cultures and to encourage scholarship and research into the history of the Royal Navy.

The museum includes an environmentally controlled store to keep documents, letters, photographs and some works of arts; and accessible storage, in which appropriate items. For example World War II ship relics can be seen by the public on special tours, which are conducted during special weekends, such events include the Community Days and Heritage Open Days