Cumbrian museum preparing for biggest ever military festival

The event is set to take place on Saturday and Sunday, from 10am until 4.30pm on both days. 

After successful events in 2022 and 2023, the festival has evolved once again and will feature a wide range of things to see, such as a re-enactors' encampment, the modern army, military demonstrations and historical vehicles from Solway Aviation Museum.

The festival will feature plenty of re-enactments (Image: Supplied)

Museum manager Jules Wooding is confident that this year's festival will be the biggest one yet. 

She said: "We felt that there was a lot of interest in the re-enactment, so that's what we wanted to focus on. We're thinking it's going to bring in not just a lot of people from Cumbria, but from all over.

"We're a military museum and we've been on the military site for nearly 92 years. We are very keen on highlighting the military history of the site, and also encouraging people to find out more.

"This is a family event and we realised that there is a lot of interest in the different time periods of military history.

"We want to engage people. Inevitably people come because they want to see the weapons, but they also come because they want to know about the people and know what it was like to be in the army hundreds of years ago.

"It's a really unique and great way of getting those insights."

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A kids' zone featuring dress-up, crafts and more, as well as the castle cafe, will also be open to visitors.

Learning and events assistant Rachel Brodie added: "There will be a little bit of something for everyone.

"As well as the re-enactment demonstrations, we will also have the modern army, Cumbria army cadets and veterans.

There will also be opportunities to learn what it was like to be in the military hundreds of years ago (Image: Supplied)

"This is our third festival, but it's changed a lot since we first started.

"The numbers have increased every year and hopefully the more we do it, the more people will realise this is something to have on their radar in the first weekend of June every year."