page_title: Royal Artillery Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Artillery Museum
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the Rotunda, designed by John Nash for St. James's Park in 1814 and moved to Woolwich Common in 1820 to serve as the Royal Artillery Museum (until 2001; now a boxing arena for nearby troops), Green Hill, Woolwich, Southeast London.
context_page_description: The Royal Artillery Museum, one of the world's oldest military museums, was first opened to the public in Woolwich in south-east London in 1820. It told the story of the development of artillery through the ages by way of an unrivalled collection of artillery pieces from across the centuries. The museum had its roots in an earlier institution, the Royal Military Repository; items which were once displayed in the Repository form the nucleus of the Royal Artillery Museum collection. Following the closure in 2016 of the museum, branded since 2001 as 'Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum', its collection has been placed in storage pending the establishment of a new Royal Artillery Museum. The Royal Artillery Museum collections are designated as being of national and international significance by Arts Council England.
context_section_description: The Royal Artillery Museum, one of the world's oldest military museums, was first opened to the public in Woolwich in south-east London in 1820. It told the story of the development of artillery through the ages by way of an unrivalled collection of artillery pieces from across the centuries.  The museum had its roots in an earlier institution, the Royal Military Repository (established in Woolwich in the 1770s as a training collection for cadets of the Royal Military Academy); items which were once displayed in the Repository form the nucleus of the Royal Artillery Museum collection. Following the closure in 2016 of the museum, branded since 2001 as 'Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum', its collection has been placed in storage pending the establishment of a new Royal Artillery Museum.  The Royal Artillery Museum collections are designated as being of national and international significance by Arts Council England.
caption: The Rotunda, Woolwich: home of the museum from 1820 to 2001
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