Sunday, 10 August 2025

Best of the Best: Royal Armouries Leeds

This time, I want to talk about a museum! During my UK travels, I could enjoy a special one twice: The Royal Armouries in Leeds. As an armoury, its collection are weapons and armour from all over the world, mainly from the medieval period onwards.

It does a great job to not only show heaps of metal, but to explain and contextualise their pieces, including opportunities to touch. Next to a focus on British military guns and jousting, it does have stuff from all around the world, including this:


That is the last complete set of elephant armour (from the Moghul empire) in the world. One example for why the British Empire's "acquisitions" make for a lot of concentrated sightseeing.

Stay epic!