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It had a Library and Archive with extensive holdings including battery records. A research service was available. Firepower produced a guide for family history researchers called "Is There A Gunner In Your Family Tree?" The sixteen page guide outlined how the Museum's extensive archives could help researchers. It also detailed the other main UK sources and archives to explore when researching army service.
A new Royal Artillery Museum is planned for a site at Avon Camp West, just south of Netheravon on the A345, and around a mile and a half to the north-east of Larkhill, Wiltshire, England. Subject to planning, the new Royal Artillery Museum is scheduled to open in spring 2022.
====Part of Library and Archive now at Larkhill====
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunner_(rank) Gunner (rank)] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_(rank) Bombardier] Wikipedia<br>
*[https://royalartillerymuseum.com Royal Artillery Museum] scheduled to open in spring 2022(planned).
**[https://royalartillerymuseum.com/archive-3/overview-4 The Archive] is in new storage facility near Larkhill, and most records are now available for research purposes, and visits are possible subject to prior arrangement.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://7fd-regt-raa-association.com/Documents/UK%20Artlillery%20terms%20and%20abbreviations.doc Glossary of Royal Artillery. Terms and Abbreviations (Historical and Modern) by Philip Jobson]. 7fd-regt-raa-association.com, now an archived website. This is a (Word document) download to your computer, to a downloads folder, which must then be opened. Appear to be extracts from the book [http://op-ack.tripod.com/royalartilleryglossaryoftermsandabbreviations/index.html ''Royal Artillery Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations''] by Philip Jobson 2008
