HC Deb 19 January 1995 vol 252 cc689-90W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those military museums that currently have fewer than 15,000 visitors a year; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Soames

A list of the military museums which have fewer than 15,000 visitors per year, based on the most recent figures available, is as follows.

Museum:

  • Royal Artillery Regimental Museum, Woolwich
  • Royal Signals Museum, Blandford
  • Royal Logistics Corps Museum, Deepcut
  • Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, Mytchett
  • Royal Army Dental Corps Museum, Aidershot
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  • Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Museum, Aldershot
  • Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Museum, Arborfield
  • Corps of Royal Military Police Museum, Chichester
  • Intelligence corps Museum, Ashford
  • Household Cavalry Museum, Windsor
  • The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum, Glasgow
  • The Black Watch Museum, Perth
  • The Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen
  • The Royal Anglian Regimental Museum (Suffolk Regiment), Bury St. Edmunds
  • The Staffordshire Regiment, Lichfield
  • Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Lancashire Fusiliers) Museum, Bury
  • The Regiments of Gloucestershire Museum, Gloucester
  • The Duke of Edinburgh Royal Regiment Museum, Salisbury
  • The South Wales Borderers and Monmouthshire Regimental Museum of the Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/21st Foot), Brecon
  • The Devon and Dorset Regiment Museum, Dorchester
  • The Green Howards Museum, Richmond

The list comprise those museums in receipt of public funding, but does not include military museums which are privately funded or run by regimental associations.