Learn the history of hunting and the weapons from prehistory to the 20th-century, ranging from simple spears to more complex weapons such as longbows, crossbows, and firearms.
Highlights
The ‘Tula garniture’, an 18th-century set of elegantly decorated hunting weapons that belonged to Elizabeth Petrovna, Empress of Russia
20th-century Norwegian whaling gun
18th-century flintlock sporting gun by William Simpson of York
The Royal Armouries Millennium Gun by Giles Whittome
One of the largest rifles ever made, a 4 bore Holland & Holland hunting rifle. Owned by Ewart Scott Grogan and used on this journey across Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo in order to win the hand of his wife in marriage.
