What's on
Discover the Household Cavalry Museum. Explore our events and combine your visit to the Household Cavalry Museum with one of the daily parades.
Activity
Family fun
Future Troopers: Make a Household Cavalry helmet
Fri 7th August 2026
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
Design, decorate, and take home your very own Household Cavalry!
Event
Tours
Early Evening Gin Experience
Wed 12th August 2026
6:00 pm
- 7:30 pm
Journey through the history of the Household Cavalry after hours in this evening tour.
Activity
Event
Family fun
Special Events
Operation: Future Trooper
Fri 14th August 2026
10:00 am
- 4:00 pm
A family-fun day at the Household Cavalry Museum.
Family fun
Tours
Family Tour: Animal Adventures
Fri 21st August 2026
10:00 am
- 11:00 am
A unique tour focusing on the animals of the Household Cavalry, both horses and beyond. Perfect for Families.
Horses of the Household Cavalry
Fri 28th August 2026
11:00 am
- 12:30 am
Join us for some horse-themed fun at the museum! Learn all about the horses of the Household Cavalry, through our object handling collection, and make your very own horse mask to take home with you!
Tours
Guided Tour of Museum
Sat 29th August 2026
11:00 am
- 12:30 pm
Step into the heart of British history with an exclusive, guided tour of the Household Cavalry Museum.
Event
Tours
Early Evening Gin Experience
Wed 23rd September 2026
6:00 pm
- 7:30 pm
Journey through the history of the Household Cavalry after hours in this evening tour.
Tours
Guided Tour of Museum
Sat 31st October 2026
11:00 am
- 12:30 pm
Step into the heart of British history with an exclusive, guided tour of the Household Cavalry Museum.
Event
Tours
Early Evening Gin Experience
Wed 18th November 2026
6:00 pm
- 7:30 pm
Journey through the history of the Household Cavalry after hours in this evening tour.
Daily Ceremonies at Horse Guards
Combine your visit to the Household Cavalry Museum with one of the daily parades.
Daily Ceremony
The King’s Life Guard
Monday
,
Wednesday
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Friday
11:00 am
The King’s Life Guard is conducted by soldiers of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment at Horse Guards. Horse Guards is named after the troops who have mounted The King’s Life Guard here since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
The ceremony has remained mostly unchanged for over 350 years.
Daily Ceremony
4 O’Clock Inspection
Every day
4:00 pm
At 4pm every day in the courtyard on the Whitehall side of Horse Guards, a short ceremony takes place that brings an end to the sentry duties of the two mounted Household Cavalry in the sentry boxes.
The two troopers on horseback, along with six guards on foot, will form a line in the courtyard, where they are inspected by an officer in the regiment who will have ridden down from Knightsbridge Barracks by Hyde Park to do so. Once satisfied, the officer dismisses the troopers, ending the Mounted Guard’s duties for the day.
