Join the Royal Marines Museum for a variety of fun packed family activities to keep the kids busy over the Summer half term holiday.

11am  - Raiding Party

2pm - Counter Insurgency

Normal Museum admission applies.

Join the Royal Marines for the day!

Meet Royal Marines recently returned from Afghanistan at our recreation of an Afghanistan base. For one day you'll be a Royal Marine and experience what a day in the life of a Royal Marine in Afghanistan is like.

ChinocPaint balling - Assault Course - Climbing Wall - Military Vehicles

An Audience with Ed Smith - Wednesday 27 June 7.30pm

At the Royal Marines Museum

£8 (conc £6 U18 £1)

Tickets available online - www.portsmouthfestivities.co.uk

A lecture by Ian Gardiner, who commanded a rifle company in 45 Commando Royal Marines in the Falklands War, to commemorate the 30 anniversary of the Falklands War. The lecture gives a Royal Marine’s perspective on the Falklands War and will be chaired by Major General Julian Thompson CB OBE, who was Commander of 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War. A book signing will follow the lecture.

£10 per ticket (includes lunch) available from the Museum on 023 9281 9385

The Lessons of Lloyd George - Lord Hattersley Thursday 28 June 7.30pm

At the Royal Marines Museum

£10 (conc £8 U18 £1)

Tickets available online - www.portsmouthfestivities.co.uk

An afternoon of musical delights from the Royal Marines. Bring a picnic, or enjoy the food available on your rug while you listen to the music. The band will be supported by violinist Victoria Yellop who is returning as the support act and new for the line up this year are The Three Belles.

Concert starts at 1pm.

Tickets £3 per person.available online

You must not laugh at me, darling, but it had always been a girlish dream of mine to love someone whose name was Ernest..." Everybody loves Ernest. The only trouble is, he doesn't exist. Or does he? Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece gets The Pantaloons treatment in this anarchic take on the classic comedy of manners. Handbags at dawn!

Tickets available on 023 9281 9385

or http://www.thepantaloons.co.uk/

During Heritage Open Days visitors are allowed to access areas of the Museum which are not accessible to the general public; this gives visitors a unique insight in to an extraordinary building which was previously the Officers’ Mess of the Royal Marines. The Museum is an excellent example of architecture from the mid-Victorian period and even to this days surprises people with some of its secrets. From 6 to 9 September daily tours will start in the Mountbatten Room where details on the architecture and artwork will be given and photos from the time when the room was a functioning Mess displayed. The tour moves on to the attic space, where the mechanics which operate the candelabra in the Mountbatten Room can be seen. The tour then moves on to the cellars for a unique insight in the working Port cellars and unusual artwork on the wall.

Book on to a tour in advance to avoid disappointment and get a discounted Museum ticket.

Tours 11am and 2pm