'Collector’ magazine and Ian Skennerton's November 2006 Museums Tour to England, Scotland & Europe was enjoyed by the Aussie & American participants. We visited the Imperial War Museum, Tower of London, Maritime Museum, National Army Museum, Firepower Artillery Museum at Woolwich and others. Then we went to Fort Nelson, Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth, Infantry Museum at Warminster, Edinburgh Castle, J.P. Lee's birthplace at Hawick, Leeds Royal Armouries, National Firearms Collection, Land Warfare Centre & Air Museum at Duxford, Colchester Castle, &c. Then we went to Paris, Great War battlefields,  Holland, Belgium & Germany for more prime museums. See 'Collector' #25 for articles & photographs of some of the places we visited.
'Vizier' magazine organizes Israeli tours of battle-
fields, museums and range shoot of historical firearms. Jerusalem, Beersheeba, the Golan Heights, a kibbutz and military museums are high points. Israel component, about US$475 for 7 days plus $300 for 4 days kibbutz and shooting, twin share basis. Plus air fares to Tel Aviv, Israel. 
Contact Dr. David Th. Schiller, Box 1363, 56373 Nassau, Germany. Telefax: 49 2604 978 770. Or visit the new Vizier website at www.paulparey.de and click on the English or US language button.

Spring UK Museums Tour
February-March1998
see 'Collector' issue #14, page 51

Fall US Museums & Gun Show Tour
October & November 1999
see 'Collector' issue #19, page 37

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Our 2006 group visited...
 Thai Navy Museum, Samutprakan
 Fort Chulachomklau
 Hellfire Pass, Kanchanaburi

Joining up in London with the Americans, we visited...
 the British Museum
 the Tower of London
 the Imperial War Museum
 the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
 the Wallace Collection
 School of Infantry, Warminster
 Portsmouth Naval complex
 Edinburgh Castle
 J.P. Lee's birthplace at Hawick
 the Royal Armouries, Leeds
 the National Firearms Collection
 Duxford Air Museum &
 Land Warfare Centre
 Colchester Castle 

Under the channel to Europe...
 Musee de l'Armee, Paris
 Great War battlefields
 Ypres, Flanders Field
 Netherlands Army Museum, Delft
 Koblenz German Army Museum

More new photos to be posted here as time is available

Or see the articles in the 'Collector' annual #25
 

Our U.K. itinerary in February &
    March of 1998 included...
  the British Museum
  the British Library
  the Tower of London
  the Imperial War Museum
  HMS Belfast on the Thames
  the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
  the Wallace Collection
  School of Infantry, Warminster
  Fultons at Bisley
  Portsmouth Naval complex
  Stonehenge National Monument
  the Royal Armouries, Leeds
  the Ministry of Defence
    Pattern Room, Nottingham
with free days when members chose to visit Hendon aircraft museum and other such sites,  in smaller groups.

During the UK tour we also visited:
   Dealers and gunshops e.g.
   Holland & Holland, Blunderbus
   Antiques, Camden markets,
   Fultons at Bisley, Jeremy
   Tenniswood and Selous Books
   at Aldershot, and Mike Long in
   Nottingham.

With an optional stopover in Bangkok, Thailand, the Australian and New Zealand contingent were hosted through the Royal Firearms Collection at Wat Phra Keow, the National Museum, POW Museum at Kanchanaburi on the River Kwai, Juktujuk weekend market in Bangkok, the Military market near Chinatown and the Bangkok gun quarter at Unagun square.

This 1998 tour group to England comprised a pleasant mixture of 30+ American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand collectors, and included six of their ladies who thoroughly enjoyed their adventure to the United Kingdom.