Visiting the Museum Store

The Store was re-organised in 2005 and provides search space for two visitors at a time.

Artefacts and artworks in the Windsor & Royal Borough Museum are for the enjoyment and use of local residents, visitors, students and researchers.

The Museum's collection comprises a wide variety of over 6,000 objects including prehistoric tools, Roman and Saxon artefacts, maps, textiles, paintings and prints, together with objects and ephemera from before Victorian times up to World War II and the 1950s.

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Visitors

We welcome visitors to the Museum Store on Wednesday  mornings by prior appointment.  Volunteers from the Friends of Windsor & Royal Borough Museum who are local historians are on hand to answer enquiries and to help with research.

Visitors come with a variety of interests:

• researching the history of a house, town, a village or an area in the Borough 
• studying the history of an event
• seeking background material for a school project, thesis or book
• borrowing an artefact for educational purposes

To arrange an appointment please phone 01628 796829
or email museum.collections@rbwm.gov.uk

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Open Days

Museum Open Days are held annually

There are displays, short local history talks and the chance to see behind the scenes at the Museum.

The last one was held on Saturday 3 November 2007

You can see photographs from 2006 on the Events page.

In 2005 more than 80 visitors came to see behind the scenes at the Museum Store.

They looked at displays of our World War II objects and some from other wars of past times. They listened to three illustrated talks on memories of wartime in Windsor and Eton Wick and on the Dedworth Bomb.

Children came too and had fun looking at a model of the Siege of Windsor Castle in 1216, and dressing up in 'medieval' costume, including chain mail and World War 2 uniform! Volunteers from the Friends of the Royal Borough Museum Collection stewarded the event, and several visitors took away a leaflet about joining the Friends. Please visit the Museum Events page and find out more