Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
As I alluded to above, RA Leeds have a bad rep among serious researchers. They keep masses of stuff in the non-accesible vault. If you are (great bloke, btw) Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons, they’ll let you in. A bit. Otherwise not. They are increasingly not in any way a centre for academic research, and more (pre-COVID) focussed on doing knights doing sword stuff to entertain nine-year olds.

In my judgement, they are highly unlikely to give a flying toss about airguns.

I’d be very happy to be proved wrong.
I think I suggested it a while ago, but the British Motor Museum in Warwickshire would be a good place to house an airgun museum. Its close enough to the home of the once mighty arsenals of Birmingham and sort of in the middle of England. They could have a Springer Annex, a PCP Gallery, an Antique Boutique with a shed for the CO2 and pumpers. With one or two exceptions airguns are not military 'weapons' so they don't need to be mixed up with all those scary powder-burner types.