Insight Weekend: Passchendaele 1917
Throughout the weekend visitors can discover more about the technological advances of the Great War through talks, tours and live performances. The museum square will play centre stage to a replica Mark IV British tank, with soldiers in historic uniform giving talks about life at the front.
Events will include firearms demonstrations, tech talks on the pioneering development and use of the tank, and an exclusive opportunity to meet the Royal Armouries curators as they display a rare Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr anti-tank gun. There will be a reflective space in the Hall of Steel for visitors to make their own poppies alongside talks about the weapons of Passchendaele, the Royal Flying Corps, conscientious objectors and Elsie Knocker, a British nurse on the front line.
Please join us for our Armistice Day Service on Saturday 11 November at 10.45am, including music, readings and commemorative poppy drop.
Please note that doors to the museum will be closed between 10.45am and 11.30am whilst the service is in progress.
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