A MUSEUM charting the history of an illustrious Yorkshire regiment is preparing to open its doors again after a six-month closure for renovation.

The Green Howards Museum, in Richmond, is packed with a wealth of artefacts, medals, uniforms and stories of the Green Howards and the people around them – but until now museum bosses had not felt they were displayed to their full potential because of an awkward layout.

The Green Howards Museum will reopen on Remembrance Sunday, and will continue to work on its interactive displays until the official relaunch in May 2015.

Museum curator Lynda Powell said she was excited to finally be filling the new display cabinets and preparing the new sensory exhibits which allow people to touch items that had previously been out of reach.

The story starts in 1688 on the top floor of the completely re-modelled building, set inside the disused Trinity Church in the town’s Market Place.

Ms Powell said she was pleased visitors would now get a sense of being within the church tower with the newly stripped-back beams and windows unobstructed.

The upper level is dedicated to the regiment between 1688 and 1901, covering the Crimean and Boar Wars.

On the first floor, the popular medal room is still fully open, but now the adjoining Normanby Room will be open for the first time to the public, displaying customs and traditions of regimental life in the Officers’ and Sergeants’ Mess.

Exhibitions of WWI and WWII artefacts and stories will also be on the first floor, as well as the story of the Green Howards from 2006 to the present day.

The ground floor will now act as an introductory area, which will explain to visitors what it meant to be a Green Howard soldier.

For more information visit greenhowards.org.uk.