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The Imperial War Museum (IWM), currently branded "Imperial War Museums", is a British national museum.It is headquartered in London, with five branches in England. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, it was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of the United Kingdom and its Empire during the First World War.
Based at the Imperial War Museums (IWM) in London, the database has so far recorded over 68,000 war memorials. These records are available in an online database available on the IWM website. It is a volunteer-led project, with a group of volunteers based at the IWM and fieldworkers from around the country working to record and update war ...
The Churchill War Rooms is a museum in London and one of the five branches of the Imperial War Museum.The museum comprises the Cabinet War Rooms, a historic underground complex that housed a British government command centre throughout the Second World War, and the Churchill Museum, a biographical museum exploring the life of British statesman Winston Churchill.
An aerial view of the IWM Duxford site in June 2008. Visible on the right is the large AirSpace exhibition hall, Hangars 2, 3, 4 and 5, the American Air Museum and the eastern end of the runway. When originally planned in 1917, Duxford aerodrome was to occupy a 238-acre (0.96 km 2 ; 0.372 sq mi) site divided by what is now the A505 road which ...
The Queen's Walk, London, SE1 2JH: Visitors: 327,206 (2019) [9] Director: Phil Reed [58] Public transit access: London Bridge station Tower Hill Underground station: Website: www.iwm.org.uk /visits /hms-belfast: Imperial War Museums
Donated to the IWM in 1973 and moved to Duxford, transferred to the society in 1984; it is displayed in CAFU markings. [5] De Havilland Mosquito TT.35: TA719 Royal Air Force De Havilland Tiger Moth: N6635 Royal Air Force – No. 22 Elementary Flying Training School, coded 25: English Electric Canberra B.2: WH725
The Kensingtons at Laventie is a large oil painting on glass by Eric Kennington completed in 1915 that depicts a First World War platoon of British troops. The group depicted was Kennington's own infantry platoon; Platoon No 7, C Company, the 1/13th (County of London) Battalion, the London Regiment (Kensington), who were commonly known as the Kensingtons.
Imperial War Museum North (sometimes referred to as IWM North) is a museum in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. One of five branches of the Imperial War Museum, it explores the impact of modern conflicts on people and society. It is the first branch of the Imperial War Museum to be located in the north of England.