The Royal Naval museum was founded in 1911 as the dockyard museum and was reorganised in 1938 as the Victory Museum. The Royal Naval museum charts the history of the royal navy from its origins right up to the royal navy today. The museum is ideally situated close to the Mary Rose, HMS Victory, Warrior, and close to the latest ships the navy are using.

The Royal Naval Museum is housed in three storehouses (pictured above), built to supply the Nelsonian fleet. For a history of Submarines the Submarine Museum Gosport should be visited or for a history of the Royal Marines the Marines Museum, Eastney should be visited.

Another good site to visit to find out information about the Royal Navy is the Navy's site at www.royal-navy.mod.uk. The entrance to the start of the Royal Naval Museum is located opposite HMS Victory.

The museum consists of five galleries, the Victory Gallery which gives the history of the Royal Navy up to Trafalgar. The Lambert McCarthy Gallery which is used to portray Vice Admiral Nelson, next is the Victorian Heyday and last is the 20th Century gallery.

For more information about this attraction please see the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard website.