Exhibit of the Month

Exhibit of the Month

Covert operations in the 1950s and 60s.How did UK military divers swim undetected some distance to a location to investigate a target underwater?  Well, they used an oxygen rebreather (so as to leave no tell-tale bubbles) and navigated using a swim board. A swim board...
BEST AGE-FRIENDLY WELCOME – WE MADE THE SHORTLIST!

BEST AGE-FRIENDLY WELCOME – WE MADE THE SHORTLIST!

We’ve made the Shortlist!The Diving Museum, Gosport has been shortlisted for a national Fantastic for Families Award for outstanding contribution to arts and culture for families in the category of Best Age-Friendly Welcome. Voted for by a panel of expert judges from...
TERRY’S BENCH

TERRY’S BENCH

In August this year, one of our longest-serving and most popular volunteers, Terry Nash, unexpectedly passed away.Terry was a bubbly cheerful man with enthusiastic hands and heart. He took on so many projects in the museum that almost every electrically powered...
HONOURING THE WW1 CENTENARY

HONOURING THE WW1 CENTENARY

In commemoration of the centenary of the end of the First World War, our Red Hat Knitters supported by friends and family, have been knitting and sewing poppies to decorate the front of the museum.  Over 700 poppies were made – our youngest contributors are...
DYING FOR A LAUGH

DYING FOR A LAUGH

Our last event of the season closed last night after two sell-out performances of our Murder Mystery play, ‘Death Under Pressure’. The play was the maiden performance of the company of actors known as the Museum Amateur Dramatics Group (or MAD for short)....
SCUBA DIVER MAGAZINE HAS IT COVERED

SCUBA DIVER MAGAZINE HAS IT COVERED

Andrew Tonge, former submariner and a qualified technical diving instructor visited the museum recently and has written an article about the museum which has appeared in Scuba Diver Magazine. For a visitor’s-eye-view of the museum, you can read the article here:...