WINCHESTER'S Gurkha Museum will celebrate its 50th birthday this year with a special exhibition.
The show, which will run for the entire month of August, aims to showcase the past, present and future of the Gurkhas, whose history has strong links with the city.
Visitors are invited to contemplate the dramatic transformations that have shaped the United Kingdom, the Gurkhas’ homeland (Nepal) and the nature of warfare over the past 50 years.
The exhibition will explore the changes which have shaped the modern Gurkha soldier and what impact our most brave and loyal allies have had upon on global security.
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The Gurkha Museum opened its doors in Winchester in July 1990, yet its history traces back much further.
This year marks 50 years since The Gurkha Museum opened its doors originally in Church Crookham. Six curators, thousands of collections and one relocation later, this August visitors will have the opportunity to reflect on the last half a century of collecting and curating Gurkha heritage, and contemplate what the next fifty years might hold.
The Gurkha Museum is based in Winchester, at the top of the high street set in the former Peninsula Barracks. It holds an annual exhibition to celebrate an aspect of Gurkha history.
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The 2024 Summer Exhibition, entitled Fifty Years of Curating Gurkha Heritage, will focus upon the illustrious history of Gurkhas over the last fifty years.
In addition to learning about Gurkha activity over the previous fifty years, there will be activities to engage our younger visitors; and the opportunity to review the (RIBA Stage 3) plans for the redevelopment.
Dr Daren Bowyer, director/CEO of the Gurkha Museum Trust, said: “The Gurkhas are a unique fighting force and have served this country for over 200 years. The Gurkha Museum is also unique – a military museum unlike any other, for ours is not just the story of developments in weapons and uniforms, or of campaigns and battles, but of the evolution of that special, cross-cultural relationship."
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