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Artist rendering of ground floor of Royal Marine Museum featuring Lynx Helicopter
Funding Announced To Reimagine Historic Boathouse Including New Royal Marines Museum
A gallery space featuring a 3/4 angle painting of Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
Trafalgar Day 2024: Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
A logo for the Iris prize featuring a laurel and a figure holding a United Kingdom flag
Uncharted Waters LGBTQ+ film nominated for award

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Contemporary black and white photograph of HMS Royal Oak at sea.
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The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak

The sinking of HMS Royal Oak, in the early days of the Second World War, was a major shock for the Royal Navy. In total 834 personnel were killed as…
Shelly Fungus Mascot
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HMS Victory celebrates heroes and villains of fungus

New children’s fungus hunt launches to mark UK Fungus Day 2024Did you know that Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory, the oldest ship still commissioned by…
A person smiles facing the camera with a museum gallery in the background.
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NMRN appoints Executive Director of Museum Operations

We are pleased to announce that Andrew Baines has been appointed as the new Executive Director of Museum Operations at the National Museum of the…
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The DNA sequence of a wood-munching marauder - Sanger Institute

Tapping out the DNA code of the Deathwatch Beetle gives hope to future conservation research into battling this wood-munching marauder