Fort Nelson
Museums & Science Centres · Fareham, Hampshire
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Closed — opens Tuesday at 10am
🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16🆓 Free entryEducationalSchool holiday activities
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
Onsite car park. Royal Armouries members park free; non-members pay on arrival.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Fort Nelson is a restored Victorian fortress on Portsdown Hill overlooking Portsmouth Harbour, and it houses the Royal Armouries national collection of artillery. Families can walk the ramparts and outer defences, explore the underground tunnels that link the magazines with the gun emplacements, and look round the reconstructed barrack rooms, hospital and kitchen that show how the garrison lived. The galleries hold hundreds of historic cannon, from a medieval bombard to a huge railway gun, and there are guided tours and changing exhibitions. An onsite cafe and open ground for children to run about make it an easy half day or a full day out, and entry to the fort is free.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
Wet wipes
Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.- Gloves
- Teething gel
Colouring book and pencils
Folding stool- Woolly hat
- Car seat protectorWet swimming costumes, melted ice cream, the rest.
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