Hunting gallery

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.