Centenary Celebrations

Find out how we’re celebrating our 100th birthday and how you can get involved. 

Whether it’s visiting our new exhibition, Tanks for the Memories (opening April 2023), getting your hands on some centenary merchandise, or coming to a Bowie and Meatloaf tribute concert, there’s tonnes of ways you can celebrate our centenary with us.

The Tank Museum is based at Bovington – the main training centre for tanks in the First World War. Tanks were returned to the fields around the current Museum at the end of the war and some were saved as examples to teach new Tank Corps soldiers about vehicle development.

In 1923, Rudyard Kipling is believed to have suggested more should be done to preserve these important vehicles. A shed was found to house what was to become the collection, which over the last 100 years has grown to the modern, unique attraction it is today. You can watch the video above.