Military Museum (Fort Rinella)

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Location: Il-Kalkara.

A new permanent museum exhibition focusing on the British Victorian army has been put together at Fort Rinella. This latest addition to the historic fort forms part of an extensive revamping of the same which will be seeing the relocation of all modern visitor amenities which are currently housed inside the fort to a new temporary building outside it. This was done to make way for the faithful restoration and reconstruction of all the fort's interiors as they originally stood in Victorian times. The new exhibition is located in the soldiers' defensible barrack rooms that run along the full-length of the fort's gorge. Spanning nine different rooms it will chart the rapid evolution of what was initially a hugely inefficient and fossilized army into a first-rate army forerunner of Kitchener's New Army which faced the full might of Germany's Imperial Army along the French in World War One. The new display features hundreds of original and rare objects from the reign of Queen Victoria such as uniforms, weapons, equipment, regalia, documents, paintings, and photographs. It will also include a section dedicated to the British Army in Malta and to the Maltese Regiments forming part of it. In collaboration with Kottonera Foundation.

Fil-Forti Rinella wieħed isib wirja ta' mużew permanenti ġdida li tiffoka fuq l-armata Vittorjana Ingliża. Din l-aħħar żieda mal-forti storiku tifforma parti minn tiġdid estensiv tal-istess li se jkun qed jara r-rilokazzjoni tal-kumditajiet moderni kollha tal-viżitaturi li bħalissa jinsabu ġewwa l-forti għal bini temporanju ġdid barra minnu. Dan sar biex jagħmel lok għar-restawr u rikostruzzjoni tal-interjuri kollha tal-forti kif kienu oriġinarjament fi żminijiet Vittorjani. Il-wirja l-ġdida tinsab fil-kmamar tal-kwartieri difensibbli tas-suldati li jinsabu tul il-forti kollu. Din il-wirja tkopri disat ikmamar differenti, u turi l-evoluzzjoni mgħaġġla ta' dik li inizjalment kienet armata immensament ineffiċjenti u fossilizzata f'armata mill-aqwa prekursur tal-armata l-ġdida ta' Kitchener li ffaċċjat il-qawwa sħiħa tal-armata imperjali tal-Ġermanja flimkien mal-armata Franċiża fl-Ewwel Gwerra Dinjija. Il-wirja l-ġdida fiha mijiet ta’ oġġetti oriġinali u rari mir-renju tar-Reġina Vittorja li tinkludi uniformijiet, armi, tagħmir, regalia, dokumenti, pitturi u ritratti. Se tinkludi wkoll taqsima ddedikata lill-Armata Ingliża f’Malta u lir-Reġimenti Maltin li jiffurmaw parti minnha. B’kollaborazzjoni mal-Fondazzjoni Kottonera.