Royal Marines Museum
Royal Marines Museum
The Royal Marines Museum at Portsmouth occupied the listed former Officers’ Mess of the old Eastney Barracks as well as Eastney Fort East, constructed 1861–63. Both the structures survive relatively intact and the Mess has impressive interiors.
The Museum’s parent organisation, the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN), decided to consolidate displays about the history of the Marines inside Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, and dispose of the Eastney site. Following on from a Conservation Plan we compiled for three of the NMRN’s buildings in the Historic Dockyard, we were commissioned to prepare an assessment of the history and significance of the Eastney site and its capacity for sustainable development.
This analysis supported the sale of the seafront site, which is to be developed as Portsmouth’s first five star hotel.
Client: National Museum of the Royal Navy