National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth

The museum was founded in 1911. Known originally as the Dockyard Museum, it was conceived by Mr. Mark Edwin Pescott-Frost, then secretary to the Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth. With a passion for naval history he spearheaded a project to save items for future generations, eventually leading to the opening of a museum (space having been made available for him in the eastern section of the Great Ropehouse). With the impending arrival of , however, (which was to be dry docked in the dockyard in 1922) a substantial number of items were retained for display with the ship. In 1929 the foundation stone was laid for a new purpose-built museum building, designed to display artefacts from HMS…

The museum is housed in a row of three buildings which face . No. 11 Storehouse dates from 1763, and the adjacent No. 10 Storehouse from 1776; both are Grade I listed. The Victory Gallery is a purpose-built museum building of 1938. , a World War I Monitor warship, is also part of the museum; she was opened to the public in 2015, her centenary year. No. 11 Storehouse contains various exhibition spaces relating to the Age of Sail. The restored No. 10 Storehouse opened to the public in 2014 as the Babcock Galleries, housing a new permanent exhibition telling the story of the 20th- and 21st-century Navy, as well as temporary exhibition spaces. It also houses the Trafalgar Sail (the fore topsail…