Wellington Museum, Waterloo

Wellington Museum

The Wellington Museum in 2015
Location within Belgium
Established	1954(1954)
Location	Waterloo, Belgium
Type	War museum
Website	museewellington.be

TheWellington MuseuminWaterloo, Belgium,is located in the house where theDuke of Wellington,spent the night before and after theBattle of Waterloo(18 June 1815).

The museum contains information about the Duke of Wellington, theWaterloo Campaign,the main phases of theBattle of Waterlooa Gallery and contemporary military artifacts from the armies that fought in the battle.

Gallery

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  Headquarters of the Duke of Wellington, by C. C. Hamilton (1817)
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  Wellington's Bedroom, where he slept the night before the battle, and wrote hisWaterloo dispatchtoLord Bathurst,British Secretary of War, early in the morning after the battle.
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  The bed in which the mortally wounded SirAlexander Gordondied in the evening after the battle.
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  Scotland Forever!by Lady Butler (the original is inLeeds Art Gallery
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  The French room
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  Display room on the second floor
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  Prussian medal awarded to the non-combattants who took part at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Collection of the Wellington Museum, Waterloo.

See also

• List of Waterloo Battlefield locations

External links

• Media related toWellington Museum, Waterlooat Wikimedia Commons