The Army Museums Ogilby Trust is the only national organisation that represents, supports and promotes the regimental and corps museums of the British Army. As an independent private charity it relies entirely on its own resources and the generosity of others to fund its work.

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The Army Museums Ogilby Trust is a registered charity founded in 1954 by the late Colonel
Robert Ogilby DSO, DL whose personal experiences in two world wars persuaded him that the
fighting spirit of the British soldier stemmed from the esprit de corps engendered by the Army’s
regimental structure. This spirit is enshrined in the many regimental and corps museums which
seek to inspire and educate their visitors.
The Trust has played, and continues to play, a very significant part in the establishment and
development of some 136 such museums in the United Kingdom today. They are as varied and
individual as the regiments they represent. A visit to any of them will produce evidence of the
Trust's activities: objects purchased with the assistance of a grant-in-aid; endowments to support
their establishment or development and improvements to the preservation, conservation, display
and recording of objects and archive material achieved through professional advice funded by
the Trust. Most museums are now charitable trusts themselves and the legal costs associated with
establishing them were, in most cases, borne by the Trust.
The Trust has contributed to professional military, museum and heritage journals and has
sponsored or supported the publication of a number of works of reference. More recently it has
created and now maintains a website, www.armymuseums.org.uk, which is recognised as the
definitive guide to regimental and corps museums. The site carries advice on tracing army
ancestors and includes a 4,000 volume regimental bibliography. The Trust also responds to
inquiries from the general public. Its latest project was the production of The AMOT Guide to
Military Museums – a glove box guide to all the regimental and corps museums listed on the
website as well as prestigious national museums with collections of military significance.
Army museums are in most cases now well established and integrated into the national museums
sector. Their collections provide valuable insights into the great events of our military history but
they also illustrate the close links that have existed and continue to flourish between regiments
and their local communities. The care and management of such collections is a heavy
responsibility which demands specialist knowledge, professional training and funding. AMOT
assists the in all these areas. Visit our website for more information about British Army
Records.