Kohima Museum - York
Jerry Bird, a Trustee of the Kohima Museum, will give a free webinar at 8pm on Tuesday April 21st about his Uncle Cyril Bird, who was killed in action at The Battle of Kohima, fighting with the 2nd Dorsets at the key location of the Deputy Commissioner’s bungalow.
Register here to watch the webinar live or retrospectively.
Following Kohima Museum’s exhibition last summer “Victoria Crosses of the Burma Campaign”, Mark Green has published a new book describing the heroic deeds during the Burma Campaign that earned Victoria Crosses. There were 29 awarded in total, 9 to members of the British Army & 20 to members of the Indian Army, including 9 Gurkhas.
Some of these can be read about here.
Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan 1945. A free webinar by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson at 8pm on Thursday February 26th.
Click here to watch live or retrospectively.
Click here to watch live or retrospectively.
Kohima Museum will be closed this Thursday (Jan 22) due to circumstances beyond our control.
Kohima Museum Curator Bob Cook will give a prestigious lecture about the Battle of Kohima at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on Wednesday February 25th.
Ticket Price: £15 per person (Includes a complimentary drink).
All ticket revenue supports the ongoing care and wellbeing of Chelsea Pensioners.
Tickets can be bought here.
Kohima Museum is open to the public every Thursday from 10.00 until 13.15.
Visits at other times are possible by appointment.
2025 was a wonderful year for the Kohima Museum. Visitor numbers doubled. The Museum’s website & social media sites flourished, raising awareness of the Burma Campaign far beyond our shores. The team of volunteers who run the Museum has grown & we have two new trustees. We won our first competitive grant & held our first exhibition. Read all about it here.
It was a great honour for the Kohima Museum curatorial team to be invited to the Japanese Embassy for an award ceremony in which Mrs Akiko MacDonald received the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation for her decades of work fostering reconciliation and friendship between the U.K. and Japan.
Akiko is Chairperson of the Burma Campaign Society. She gave a very moving speech, in which she spoke of her father, who fought at Kohima.
The Award was presented by The Ambassador of Japan, Mr Hiroshi Suzuki. He is pictured in the photograph, with Akiko and her family.
The number of visitors to the Kohima Museum is constrained by the fact that it only opens to the public on Thursday mornings. In 2024, the Museum averaged 42 visitors per month. That number has more than doubled so far in 2025, with 86 visitors per month for January to October.
Brigadier Greville Bibby CBE, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kohima Museum, described this increase in visitor numbers as “a very positive development”.
Additional good news is that Kohima Museum’s Facebook account has reached 4,000 followers. If you don’t already, follow us on Facebook & Instagram.