Explosion Museum in the Northwest of Portsmouth Harbour, viewed from the Spinnaker Tower 27 5 2022

'Explosion ' is the department of the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard that records and displays naval armaments. It is in some of the buildings of the dockyard's former ammunition stores. They were located in what was then an isolated part of the harbour, so that, should there be any unfortunately accident with explosive materials, it would avoid damaging the other installations and naval vessels in port. It can be accessed by land from Gosport, but there is a ferry service linking the main Museum with Explosion and the submarine museum in Haslar, just south of Gosport.