National War Museum

For other uses, see National War Museum (disambiguation).

National War Museum
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Coordinates55°56′55.5″N 03°12′05.7″W / 55.948750°N 3.201583°W / 55.948750; -3.201583
Visitors805,934 (2019)[1]
Websitewww.nms.ac.uk/war

The National War Museum is a museum dedicated to warfare, which is located inside Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. Opened in 1933 in a converted 18th-century ordnance storehouse, the museum is run by the National Museums Scotland and covers 400 years of Scotland at war from the 17th century through permanent exhibits and special exhibitions.[2]

It was formerly known as the Scottish United Services Museum,[3] and prior to this, the Scottish Naval and Military Museum.

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  2. ^ Li, Martin (30 May 2017). Adventure Guide to Scotland. Hunter Publishing, Inc. p. 41. ISBN 9781588434067. Archived from the original on 26 January 2023. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  3. ^ Wright, Christopher; Gordon, Catherine May (2006). British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press. p. 30. ISBN 0300117302. Archived from the original on 26 January 2023. Retrieved 26 January 2023.