Large Exhibits Gallery

The Large Exhibits Gallery greets you as you enter the museum and houses some of the most important weapons and vehicles in our collection.

Some of the most significant items on display are the 4-inch gun which fired the first British shot from HMS Lance in the First World War, a Supermarine Spitfire Mark 1A which saw action in the Battle of Britain and an unusual one-man Biber German submarine.

Also on display are some of the most destructive weapons of the Second World War including a V1 and V2 rocket, the ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb of the type dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and a post-war Polaris.