NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE ROYAL NAVY

DIGITAL COLLECTION DAY - NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE ROYAL NAVY

Date: Saturday 16 September 2023

Time: 10:00am-4.00pm

Venue: Learning Centre in the Victory Gallery (ground floor), Victory Gate, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, PO1 3LJ

Do you have any Second World War related stories and objects passed down to you from your parents, grandparents and other family members? Would you like to share and preserve these objects and stories for future generations?

Bring your diaries, letters, photographs, memoirs, objects or stories about your family’s experience in the war to the National Museum of the Royal Navy to be recorded and added to our freely-available, online archive.

Volunteers will be on hand in the Learning Centre, Victory Gallery (ground floor) from 10am to 4pm to welcome you and help record your story and photograph your objects.

Attendance is free but we encourage you to register by filling out this online form.

Access to the dockyard is free if you ask for a Dockyard Historic Pass. For enquiries about this event, please email theirfinesthour@ell.ox.ac.uk.

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