Date: 11th and 18th April 2019
Venue: The Rifles Museum
​This Easter Holiday come along to The Rifles Museum on Thursday 11th or Thursday 18th April to build your own eggbox tank.
Get inspired by the real vehicles used by the British Army today and the tanks of the past. Or come up with your own design! You can also enjoy tank and armoured vehicle colouring, and discover the story of the relationship between armour and The Rifles regiment.
 
A great day of a family fun and activities.
 
£1 per child
Ideal for children aged 5-11
10:30 am - 3:30 pm

​Date: 8th April to 22nd April 2019
Venue: The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum
Help Brigadier Bear on his quest to find the Easter Eggs hidden around the Museum! Have a go at making a daffodil or an Easter card to take home with you!
Trail and crafts will be running from Monday 8th April – 22nd April
Activities are free to take part in.  Children 16 and under visit for free and must be accompanied by a paying adult.
The Museum will be closed on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

Date: 20th February 2019
Venue: The Rifles Museum
This half term holiday, come along to The Rifles Museum on Wednesday the 20th February to design and build your own kaleidoscope. Also, enjoy kaleidoscope-colouring – what patterns will you create? A great day of family activities.
 
£1 per child

10:30 am - 3:30 pm
 Closed for lunch 12:00 am – 1:00 pm

Date: 19th February 2019 to 23rd February 2019
Venue: HorsePower, The Museum of The King's Royal Hussars

New for half term 2019, Help Find Joey is a children's trail around the museum based on a real warhorse.
As always, free entry for children under 16.

Speaker: Bianca Taubert
Date: 13th December 2018
Venue: The McDonald Gallery, The Gurkha Museum, SO23 8TS
Time: 12:30 followed by lunch at 13:15 with cash bar
Tickets: £7 per head including sandwich lunch
Booking: ​01962 842832 or AlisonB@thegurkhamuseum.co.uk​

Date: 1st to 8th December 2018
Venue: The Rifles Museum
For the first week of December, come in to the museum for Christmas card making and festive fun! 

Speaker: Steven Broomfield 
Date: 22nd November 2018
Venue: The McDonald Gallery, The Gurkha Museum, SO23 8TS
Time: 12:30 followed by lunch at 13:15 with cash bar
Tickets: £7 per head including sandwich lunch
Booking: ​01962 842832 or AlisonB@thegurkhamuseum.co.uk

​Date: 17th November 2018
Venue: The Rifles Museum
Linking to our photography exhibition, ‘Riflemen Behind the Lens’, The Rifles Museum will be making kaleidoscopes, and learning about cameras and photography. Don’t miss out on a day of fun family activities!  

Speaker: Lieutenant General Sir Peter Duffell KCB CBE MC
Date: 16th November 2018
Venue: The McDonald Gallery, The Gurkha Museum, Winchester. SO23 8TS
Time: 10.30am
Tickets: £35.00 per head including a 2 course curry lunch.
Booking: By telephone 01962 843201 or email: marybrown@thegurkhamuseum.co.uk
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General Duffell first went to Hong Kong as a young officer in the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in 1961 and served in the Territory with his Regiment at the time of Mao’s Cultural Revolution and thereafter in various appointments in the 1970’s and 80’s including Commander Gurkha Field Force 1984-85. From 1989 to 1992 Sir Peter was Commander British Forces Hong Kong, Major General Brigade of Gurkhas and a member of the Territory’s Executive Council, the Cabinet of Hong Kong – from the Tiananmen Square demonstrations to the arrival of Chris Patten. He was invited to attend the Handover ceremonies in 1997. He has been a regular visitor to Hong Kong and China over the last twenty years. In this talk the General reflects on some of the military and civil events and incidents that he has played a part in or witnessed as a soldier and civilian over 55 years of involvement in the Territory.
Tickets are priced at £35 per head (£32 for Museum Friends) and includes tea and coffee on arrival, the lecture and a two course curry lunch in the Gallery.  

Date: 9th to 10th November 2018
Venue: The Rifles Museum
Description: For Armistice Day, we will be making poppies in The Rifles Museum. Come along and build, paint or draw your poppy. 

​Date: 26th to 27th October 2018
Venue: The Rifles Museum
Description: Celebrate Halloween this year by coming over to The Rifles Museum for pumpkin carving, ghost stories and more!
Tickets: £5
Booking: Call 01962 828505

Date: 23rd October 2018
Venue: The Rifles Museum and Peninsula Barracks
Don’t miss a unique opportunity to learn from a professional photographer in the beautiful surroundings of Winchester’s historic Peninsula Barracks. Learn how to take photographs of buildings, nature, museum objects and more.
Tickets: £30
Booking: Call 01962 828505 or book here

Date: 23rd October 2018
Venue: The Gurkha Museum
Try a taste of Nepal with a free curry tasting and Indian inspired crafts!
Between 11am and 3pm pop into the Gurkha Museum to try your hand at activities such as braided bracelet making, designing your own henna tattoos and making your own cardboard Kukri knife! There will be authentic Nepalese curry on offer for the parents (and kids!) to try for free. 

Date: 13th October 2018 to 25th November 2018
Venue: City Space, Discovery Centre, Jewry Street, Winchester
​Find out about some of the Hampshire men and women who served in the First World War in this exhibition organised by Winchester's Military Museums. 

Date: 24th September 2018 to 2nd March 2019
Venue: The Rifles Museum
At The Rifles Museum in Winchester, we have an exciting Winter of activities and events planned out.
Make sure you don’t miss out on our exciting new temporary exhibition, opening 24th September, entitled ‘Riflemen Behind the Lens’. This exhibition will feature a fantastic collection of photographs taken of The Rifles regiment over the course of the last year. 
Linking in with ‘Riflemen Behind the Lens’, we’ll be hosting a photography workshop at the museum. You’ll have the opportunity to learn from a professional photographer. We’ll also be building our own kaleidoscopes and discovering how cameras work.