Light Infantry Museum and Gallery
Durham

This three-storey Museum and Art Gallery in Durham was first opened in 1968 to house the collections of the Durham Light Infantry regiment. The building was refurbished and transformed and it now tells the story of the regiment over its two hundred year history with displays of objects from pre-1914 and the First and Second World Wars.

A new route organised around the insertion of key elements leads the visitor chronologically around the museum, through a double height entrance space and past a series of glass fins displaying brightly coloured uniforms, as if troops standing to attention. Next, a maze of walls indicative of the trenches, tells the story of the Great War, before leading the visitor from the ground floor gallery via a new stair up past large twisted planes of Cor-ten steel which divide the first floor gallery into the campaign zones of World War Two and reflect the damage inflicted throughout the course of the war.