Royal Museums Greenwich, the Museum where I work, holds a stunning collection of 2.5 million objects. One of these objects is Nelson’s coat, worn by Lord Horatio Nelson when he died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. You can see the bullet hole in his left shoulder, it’s like traveling back in time and space to the moment Lord Nelson was mortally wounded and said: ‘They have done for me at last, my backbone is shot through’. It is definitely a powerful object.
Frozen snapshots
Frozen snapshots
Frozen snapshots
Royal Museums Greenwich, the Museum where I work, holds a stunning collection of 2.5 million objects. One of these objects is Nelson’s coat, worn by Lord Horatio Nelson when he died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. You can see the bullet hole in his left shoulder, it’s like traveling back in time and space to the moment Lord Nelson was mortally wounded and said: ‘They have done for me at last, my backbone is shot through’. It is definitely a powerful object.