The Royal Signals Museum is a military museum based at Blandford Camp

Blandford Camp

Blandford Camp is a military base comprising some 390 hectares of downland lying 2 miles north-east of Blandford Forum in the county of Dorset in southern England....

 northwest of the town of Blandford Forum in Dorset

Dorset

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, England

England

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.

The museum is the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 national museum of army communications. It presents the role of communications in wars and military campaigns over the last 150 years.

The Royal Signals Museum was originally founded in Catterick

Catterick, North Yorkshire

Catterick , sometimes Catterick Village, to distinguish it from the nearby Catterick Garrison, is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England...

, North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

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 during the 1930s. It moved to its current location of Blandford Camp in 1967. A £1 million in 1989 enabled the construction of a new wing in 1995 and complete refurbishment of the exhibits, completed in 1997. The museum was reopened in its new form on 28 May 1997.

The main purposes of the museum are to:

• Provide educational resources for local schools and lifelong learning
  Lifelong learning
  Lifelong learning is the continuous building of skills and knowledge throughout the life of an individual. It occurs through experiences encountered in the course of a lifetime...
  
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• Preserve and display the heritage of the Royal Signals;
• Present military communications
  Military communications
  Historically, the first military communications had the form of sending/receiving simple signals . Respectively, the first distinctive tactics of military communications were called Signals, while units specializing in those tactics received the Signal Corps name...
  
   from the Napoleonic Wars
  Napoleonic Wars
  The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...
  
   onwards;
• Make research facilities available.

External links

• Museum website
• Entry in the 24 Hour Museum
  24 Hour Museum
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