Pack Your Bag: Gallery Trail

Follow this gallery trail and collect items to help your soldier complete a mission.
Pack Your Bag: Gallery Trail

Help prepare your soldier for a mini mission.

Look around the galleries for things that might help, and complete the activities on the trail to show that your soldier has been fully prepared.

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Schools

Gallery trails

Support and enrich your trip by using our free curriculum-linked trails, which highlight relevant objects throughout the Museum's galleries.

Primary

Whatever the weather

Soldiers have to be ready for anything! Explore and test materials by designing and building a shelter that will keep a soldier dry.

Primary

Head on (virtual)

Discover helmets from across the history of the Army, and explore the materials and properties that make a great helmet.

Video

Operation Science: Body Armour

Go behind the scenes at the National Army Museum to discover more about an unusual item in our collection.

Home Activity

Camouflage Through Time

Explore the history of camouflage with objects and uniform from the Museum’s handling collection.

Story

The art of staying alive: McNab’s survival kit

An SAS soldier's personal survival kit contains many everyday objects. These can be used in ingenious ways, demonstrating both the adaptability and the resourcefulness of the Special Forces.