Two new exhibitions are planned for 2012 at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport, Hampshire . Exhibitions Horrible Science of Submarines and Falklands 30 – War Patrols will both open in the Spring.
Chris Munns, Director of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum said, “ 2012 will be a busy and very exciting year for us at the Submarine Museum. As well as the two exhibitions opening, the conservation project Saving HMS Alliance continues in earnest”
Horrible Science of Submarines has been devised with the Horrible Science author Nick Arnold. It will be a fun family exhibition looking at how smelly submariners were, the ghastly food they ate and what happened in the loo when they got their own back.
Falklands 30 –War Patrols will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict and will comprise the personal recollections from a variety of submariners who served on the five British submarines sent to the South Atlantic to support the Royal Navy Task Force in 1982.
Both new exhibitions will open at the end of March ready for Easter when there will be a planned temporary closure of the historic WW2 era submarine HMS Alliance that is currently undergoing a major conservation programme.
The Museum is open during the Christmas holidays from Monday 19 to Friday 23 December and again from Wednesday 28 to Saturday 31 December. Visitors can go onboard HMS Alliance with a submariner to hear his stories on life beneath the sea. They can also peer into the only surviving midget submarine to have seen action during WW2 and climb inside the Royal Navy’s first submarine Holland 1 that is over 100years old. Families can play at being a submarine commander in one of six hands-on interactive stations and children can also become a pirate in the Skull & Crossbones exhibition.
For more information on visiting the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Christmas visit www.submarine-museum.co.uk or call 023 9251 0354 ext 240.
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