The Royal Green Jackets Museum in Winchester, England showcases artifacts from British military history, specifically that of the Royal Green Jackets regiment and its preceding regiments.
The spotlight on the Royal Green Jackets (1966) includes the Green Jackets Brigade (1958), the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, The King's Royal Rifle Corps (1755), The Rifle Brigade, and other military organizations dating back to 1741.
The museum houses uniforms, weapons, silver, paintings, medals, battle models and dioramas, including:
- 34 of the Regiment's Victoria Cross medals are on display
- Writing case used by General James Wolfe at Quebec
- Clothing worn by the Duke of Wellington.
- Nine scale models of famous battles, including a Battle of Waterloo diorama made up of 22,000 pieces
- Prisoner of War uniform worn by Sergeant Andy McNab after the Iraqis captured him in 1991.
Visitors also have the opportunity to fire a replica of the Baker rifle.
Queen Elizabeth II, the regiment's commanding officer, opened the museum in 1989.
Famous quotes containing the words royal, green and/or museum:
“What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by the wind? What then did you go out to see? Someone dressed in soft robes? Look, those who wear soft robes are in royal palaces. What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 11:7-9.
Jesus speaking about John the Baptist.
“Therefore awake! make haste, I say,
And let us, without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the Park a-maying!”
—Unknown. Sister, Awake! (L. 9–12)
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)