'Sea Your History: 20th Century Royal Navy' captures images and testimonies of the people of the navy in combat and under stress, doing their day-to-day work, at rest and play, at home and abroad, at sea and on land - during a century of almost continuous conflict and rapid technological and social change.

The exhibition includes colourful, surprising and often touchingly intimate items of both official and personal material selected from the collections of the Royal Naval Museum, the Fleet Air Arm Museum, the Royal Marines Museum and the Royal Navy Submarine Museum.

These include uniforms and kit, medals and certificates, programmes and menus, drawings and cartoons, letters and photographs, all typical of the mementoes and private souvenirs that service people and their families accumulate. Oral history also lets visitors hear the voices of the navy's people themselves.

The exhibition is part of a larger project to make the 20th century collections of the Royal Naval Museum, the Fleet Air Arm Museum, the Royal Marines Museum, and the Royal Navy Submarine Museum available to the public via a new website, www.seayourhistory.org.uk.

Visitors to the exhibition have the opportunity to explore www.seayourhistory.org.uk., which is online now, on dedicated computer workstations.

Tickets to the Royal Naval Museum are required to visit the exhibition. There are a number of ways to visit the Royal Naval Museum. Museum-only tickets are available and cost £4.50 for adults; combined tickets are available for the Museum and HMS Victory only and cost £12 for adults; or an all-inclusive ticket which gives entry to the museum and each of the attractions on site, including HMS Victory, Mary Rose, HMS Warrior 1860 and Action Stations start from £17.50 for adults. For further information visit www.historicdockyard.co.uk or ring 24-hour recorded information line 023 9286 1512.