Last modified on Tue 15 Dec 2020 17.11 EST
Champions of the project say it will tell inspiring stories of how the lives of wounded service personnel have been saved over the centuries and help to inspire and teach future medics.
But a plan to move the Museum of Military Medicine from barracks in Hampshire to a park on Cardiff Bay in Wales has led to anger from local people, environmentalists, community leaders and figures from the world of art and pop.
They claim that the scheme will lead to the loss of precious open space; some argue that it will be a “monument to the British empire” and its armed forces in one of the Welsh capital’s most historic and diverse areas.