The museum is located within the Blandford Camp, an army training camp sited (vaguely) between Salisbury and Bournemouth in Dorset.
* By bus: A bus from Salisbury (Wilts and Dorset services 184) costs a little over £6.00 and takes around 40 minutes to reach the camp. It is necessary to get a visitor's pass at the guardroom at the gate, and ID of some sort is requested. Inside the camp, the "NAAFI" bus stop is closest to the museum.
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| - The museum is located within the Blandford Camp, an army training camp sited (vaguely) between Salisbury and Bournemouth in Dorset.
* By bus: A bus from Salisbury (Wilts and Dorset services 184) costs a little over £6.00 and takes around 40 minutes to reach the camp. It is necessary to get a visitor's pass at the guardroom at the gate, and ID of some sort is requested. Inside the camp, the "NAAFI" bus stop is closest to the museum.
- The museum is the United Kingdom national museum of army communications. It presents the role of communications in wars and military campaigns over the last 150 years. The Royal Signals Museum was originally founded in Catterick, North Yorkshire during the 1930s. It moved to its current location of Blandford Camp in 1967. A £1 million in 1989 enabled the construction of a new wing in 1995 and complete refurbishment of the exhibits, completed in 1997. The museum was reopened in its new form on 28 May 1997. The main purposes of the museum are to:
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| - The museum is located within the Blandford Camp, an army training camp sited (vaguely) between Salisbury and Bournemouth in Dorset.
* By bus: A bus from Salisbury (Wilts and Dorset services 184) costs a little over £6.00 and takes around 40 minutes to reach the camp. It is necessary to get a visitor's pass at the guardroom at the gate, and ID of some sort is requested. Inside the camp, the "NAAFI" bus stop is closest to the museum.
- The museum is the United Kingdom national museum of army communications. It presents the role of communications in wars and military campaigns over the last 150 years. The Royal Signals Museum was originally founded in Catterick, North Yorkshire during the 1930s. It moved to its current location of Blandford Camp in 1967. A £1 million in 1989 enabled the construction of a new wing in 1995 and complete refurbishment of the exhibits, completed in 1997. The museum was reopened in its new form on 28 May 1997. The main purposes of the museum are to:
* Provide educational resources for local schools and lifelong learning;
* Preserve and display the heritage of the Royal Signals;
* Present military communications from the Napoleonic Wars onwards;
* Make research facilities available.
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