Keep an eye on our website for details of our new 2021 events!
Tickets are now on sale for our first open days of 2024! Read more
The weather might be colder, but we're still welcoming schools in throughout the Spring Term! Find out more about the topics on offer.. Read more
We’re passionate about our explosive history.
Come and explore, learn and enjoy it with us!
Bursaries that make school trips accessible to everyone
The Royal Gunpowder Mills is reliant on the time, skills, knowledge and hard work given by the team of volunteers. The team works to preserve and share the site and its unique history, for the visitors and for the future.
After the closure of ERDE, the archive material inherited passed through a number of hands and storage locations before opening to the public as an online database.
Learn all about our pioneering industrialist Philippa Walton! Read more
RGM is part of a new documentary on the Gunpowder Plot! Read more
Discover all the wonderful things you can see and do at Lee Valley Regional Park this winter! Read more
Travel back through time and discover 300 years of explosive and top secret history through film, exhibitions and interactive displays. Read more
Explore our Rocket Vault which holds 19th century gunpowder rockets through to Cold War guided missiles. Read more
A photography exhibition celebrating the women who worked in the war industries during the First World War. Read more
Discover how firearms changed over the centuries by visiting our collection of over 300 historic firearms. Read more