Hall of Steel, Royal Armouries, Leeds by fishers

Hall of Steel, Royal Armouries, Leeds

The interior of this elegant tower of steel and glass displaying over 2500 objects - swords, pikes, armour, guns, bayonets and many other things line the walls, creating fascinating patterns as you look directly upwards from the ground floor. Outside the tower, an enclosed staircase allows visitors to look through the round windows to seen selections of exhibits more closely as they climb between the different floors.

The background to the building of this museum is interesting - In 1990, after two years of preliminary research and deliberation, the decision was taken to establish a new museum in the north of England in which to house the bulk of the collection of world-wide arms and armour. The project was known as Strategy 2000, a scheme produced to provide the national museum of arms and armour with a suitable infrastructure to preserve, display and interpret its collections.

Strategy 2000 from its inception required the establishment of a new museum outside the Tower of London, the earlier home of the collection - space constraints within the Tower of London made it impossible for the museum to display or house the collections properly.

On 30 March 1996, the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds opened to the public. The new building, designed by architect Derek Walker, is the headquarters of the Royal Armouries complex of museums, and houses the majority of the museum’s collections. The construction project, which cost a total of £42.5 million, was completed in just over two years.

The Leeds museum is built not only to display the national collection, but to tell the story of the development of arms and armour through the objects, a wide range of audio-visual presentations, computer interactives and interpretations to bring the subject to life. This approach to the presentation of the subject extends outside the museum building - there is a Tiltyard for demonstrations of jousting and other forms of mounted martial sport, as well as falconry.

Ian
WoW!!! That is quite some architecture and display! Love that its monochrome but not b and w. Great info, thanks.
February 10th, 2017  
This is fabulous!! It's dizzying to look up.
February 10th, 2017  
Wow... Beautiful!
February 10th, 2017  
Wow...Super perspective and patterns in this terrific shot
February 10th, 2017  
Amazing display and superb photography!
February 10th, 2017  
Shows many of arms for killing people. Love more positive tools for helping people. Great pic. nevertheless
February 10th, 2017  
Superb. How on earth did you get this central shot without falling down?
February 10th, 2017  
Love the perspective here - invites curiousity. Fav
February 10th, 2017  
Mesmerising...and well,done for achieving such a shot without inverse vertigo..
February 10th, 2017  
Fabulous perspective, what a great shot. fav.
February 10th, 2017  
Fascinating. Great pov.
February 11th, 2017  
Brilliant capture of that impressive building. Looks like the money was well spent. Fav
February 11th, 2017  
Wow, what an amazing POV. It's quite dizzying. FAV
February 11th, 2017  
Very cool
February 11th, 2017  
Great pov and very striking. I presume nothing fell down on you!
February 11th, 2017  
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Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs, which put this shot on the Trending page.

I have to confess to cheating a little with this shot - rather than pointing the camera upwards to take this, I used one of the conveniently placed mirrors and took a shot of the reflection.

Ian
February 11th, 2017  
I've been there. Interesting place and lovely shot.
February 11th, 2017  
@gillian1912

Thank you Gillian, glad you like it!

Ian
February 11th, 2017  
Fabulous pov!
February 15th, 2017  
@kjarn

Thank you Kathy, glad you like it!

Ian
February 15th, 2017  
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