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Guards Museum

The story of the five regiments of Foot Guards, in the barracks the palace guard marches out of.

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Wellington Barracks on Birdcage Walk is where the King's Guard forms up before it crosses to the palace, and the museum inside tells the regiments' history from Waterloo to Afghanistan with uniforms, bearskins you can weigh, medals and the colours themselves. Small, cheap and staffed by former Guardsmen, who are the point; the Guards' Chapel next door was hit by a flying bomb during the Sunday service in 1944.

Where
Petty France, Victoria, SW1H 9HF
Nearest station
St. James's Park · 2 min walk

Hours

Monday10:00 – 16:00
Tuesday10:00 – 16:00
Wednesday10:00 – 16:00
Thursday10:00 – 16:00
Friday10:00 – 16:00
Saturday10:00 – 16:00
Sunday10:00 – 16:00

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