Museum/ Exhibition/ GalleryRoyal Armouries Museum

The Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, is rated with one star by Frommers, on their three star scale. This "notable construction" situated along the waterfront, with its £42 million facility, actually contains London Tower's Royal Armouries, after "perpetual storage" of these, due to "inadequate facilities" within the London museum. "Many pieces", f [more]

It is ten years since the Royal Armouries Museum was moved from the Tower of London to the "vast monolith" in Leeds as part of the city's "regenerated canal-side landscape". Built to resemble a "modern day" fort, its collection of arms and armour is the "largest of its kind" in the world. The author found plenty to occupy and interest both adults a [more]