The building that now houses Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery has a history as rich and fascinating as many of the displays contained within. The site was developed into barracks more than 250 years ago, and in that time it has been bombed, added to, taken from, and a whole lot more. By 1967 many of the on-site buildings were demolished. It was this building that Portsmouth City Council acquired in 1972, and the one that would go on to become what we know today as Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery.