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  • Chelsea, London
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  • FREE
  • Chelsea, London

Events

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Children attending a craft workshop
Workshop At Museum

18 - 21 February 2025

FREE

Soldier Silhouettes

Join us for our silhouette workshop and learn how to create images of soldiers in the night.

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Children having a ZooLab encounter with a snake
Workshop At Museum

18 February 2025

FREE

ZooLab: Meet Amazing Animals

Join us this February half-term and meet some real-life experts in adapting to the dark.

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Children attending a family friendly gallery tour
Tour At Museum

19 February 2025

FREE

Marching Orders: Duty in the Dark

Join us on a family friendly gallery tour this February half-term as we explore the work the Army performs under the cover of night.

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Children having a ZooLab encounter with a snake
Workshop At Museum

20 February 2025

FREE

ZooLab: Meet Amazing Animals

Join us this February half-term and meet some real-life experts in adapting to the dark.

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Children attending a family friendly gallery tour
Tour At Museum

21 - 22 February 2025

FREE

Marching Orders: Duty in the Dark

Join us on a family friendly gallery tour this February half-term as we explore the work the Army performs under the cover of night.

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Soldier of the King’s African Rifles covering a road, armed with a Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Rifle, c1943
Talk At Museum / Online

21 February 2025, 12.00pm

FREE

Fighting for the Empire? Britain’s Colonial African Armies, 1939-45

Hear from John Concagh as he highlights how soldiers from Africa were recruited, trained and mobilised during the Second World War.

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Exhibitions and displays

A collage of Soldier Magazine covers
Now open
Display At Museum

4 February - 6 July 2025

FREE

The Story of Soldier Magazine

For 80 years, the journalists of ‘Soldier’ magazine have stood side by side with British Army troops to record seminal moments in our history. The short film in this display celebrates that contribution.

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