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Bielby and Murer interview Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery, and Lisa Traynor, Curator of Firearms, of the Royal Armouries Museum (Leeds site), the UK’s national museum of arms and armour. The museum’s collection began in the sixteenth century, was originally housed exclusively at the Tower of London, but today is also displayed and housed at Fort Nelson near Portsmouth and at the purpose-built museum and National Firearms Centre, both in Leeds. With Bielby and Murer, Ferguson and Traynor reflect on the identity of the museum and the challenges it faces as a museum dedicated to the objects associated with the perpetration of violence, as well as the tensions of its declared purpose: ‘to excite and educate the public in the history of arms and armour.’ |
