Remembrance Poppies in The Rifles Museum
This week in The Rifles Museum, until Saturday 10th November, we will be making paper plate Remembrance Day poppies and poppy wreaths. Come along and create your own.
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Peninsula Pumpkins
Celebrate Halloween this year by coming over to The Rifles Museum on the 26th and 27th October for pumpkin carving, ghost stories and more! Call 01962 828505 to book your place for pumpkin carving. Limited tickets available on the day. £4.50 per pumpkin carved. This charge is per pumpkin, not child.…
Twice Sold Tales
Come on into The Rifles Museum to see our brilliant second-hand book corner. Browse through a wide collection of military history, novels and more! What will you discover? All books sold help us to fund the running and development of the museum. If you would like to support us, why…
2018 Winter Activities and Events
This year, we have an exciting winter of activities and events planned out. Make sure you don’t miss out on our exciting new temporary exhibition, Riflemen Behind the Lens, opening 24th September. This exhibition will feature a fantastic collection of photographs taken by the Regiment themselves over the course of the last…
I am a Rifleman Touring Exhibition
It was in 2015, that the museum first started preparing to develop its touring exhibition. From the opening of the museum in 2013 to the public, it had always been an aspiration of its Trustees and staff to develop a touring exhibition. Under the guidance and management of the Museum…
Volunteering at The Rifles Museum by Alice Rhodes
Although the footer says otherwise, I am not Melanie, so I thought I would first introduce myself. My name is Alice Rhodes and I am one of the volunteers at The Rifles Museum. I am in my third year of an English and History degree from the University of Southampton,…
The Shop 2018
If you come down to the museum today you’re in for a big surprise… It doesn’t quite fit the nursery rhyme, but if you haven’t been to the museum in a while, you would not know that we have some new items in the museum’s shop: teddy bears wearing their…
The Rifles Collect
The Rifles Collect is the Regimental Prayer of The Rifles: O Almighty God, the sure stronghold of each succeeding age, guard us your servantsof The Rifles. That we may uphold and be worthy of the great traditions bound up inour former Regiments, and as we were chosen to be swift…
It’s almost 2018…
2017 has been a busy year for us here at The Rifles Collection and we can’t believe 2018 is almost here! Lots of changes have been happening, but a lot have been ‘behind the scenes’ changes, so we thought we’d taken this opportunity to let our visitors know all about…
Medal Sets Appeal
The Regimental Museum of The Rifles is appealing for medal sets for its’ collection. If you are currently serving in the Regiment and hold a Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, Military Cross, George Medal or Queen’s Gallantry Medal – please get in touch! We would like to create a replica set of…
On Parade! 2017
This Sunday, 18th June 2017, is Winchester’s Military Museums’ annual Armed Forces Day event, On Parade! The event begins at 11:00 and will run until 15:00. It will feature live music courtesy of The Spitfire Sisters and The Rifles Band and Bugles, along with displays of modern military vehicles provided…
It’s National Poetry Day 2016!
For National Poetry Day 2016, we would like to share a poem “To Reflect and Remember” by former Serjeant Paul Cocoran, which has been adapted for The Rifles today. Feel free to share your own contribution with us, using #nationalpoetryday #therifles to the @TheRiflesCol on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To…