50°47′06″N 1°03′14″W / 50.785°N 1.054°W
Established | October 1958 |
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Location | Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire, England |
Website | Royal Marines Museum |
The Royal Marines Museum is a museum on the history of the Royal Marines from their beginnings in 1664 through to the present day. A registered charity, it is also a designated service museum under the terms of the National Heritage Act 1983 and receives Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Defence. During 2011 it formally became part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, an executive non-departmental public body of the Ministry of Defence. The museum's galleries have been closed since 2017 pending relocation.