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The Imperial War Museum is a museum in London featuring military vehicles, weapons, war memorabilia, a library, a photographic archive, and an art collection of 20th century and later conflicts, especially those involving Britain, and the British Empire. This location is the headquarters of a 5-branch system. The other locations are listed at the end of the page. The museum is partially subsidized by the government, but also relies on individual contributions. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom. ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... In economics, a subsidy is generally a monetary grant given by government to lower the price faced by producers or consumers of a good, generally because it is considered to be in the public interest. ... Imperial War Museum, Lambeth, London Fragment of the Berlin Wall, in the grounds of the Imperial War Museum. A replica of the Colditz "Cock" Glider as seen at the Imperial War Museum. P-51 Mustang, Imperial War Museum. A German World War II-era Jagdpanther tank destroyer, in the main lobby of the Imperial War Museum. Contents 1 The Museum 1.1 Current exhibits 2 History 3 Visiting the Museum 3.1 Nearest Underground stations 3.2 Nearest railway stations 4 Other branches 5 External links Image File history File links Imperialwarmuseum. ... Image File history File links Imperialwarmuseum. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1746x1128, 858 KB) Summary Previously on en:wikipedia, now moved to Commons. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1746x1128, 858 KB) Summary Previously on en:wikipedia, now moved to Commons. ... East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961. ... Download high resolution version (1280x960, 190 KB)A replica of the Colditz Glider as seen at the Imperial War Museum. ... Download high resolution version (1280x960, 190 KB)A replica of the Colditz Glider as seen at the Imperial War Museum. ... Colditz Castle in April 1945. ... Image File history File links Fighterimperialwarmuseum. ... Image File history File links Fighterimperialwarmuseum. ... The North American P-51 Mustang was a long-range single-seat fighter aircraft that entered service with Allied air forces in the middle years of World War II and became one of the conflicts most successful and recognizable aircraft. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 313 KB) German Jagdpanther, picture taken from the Imperial War Museum. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 313 KB) German Jagdpanther, picture taken from the Imperial War Museum. ... This article is becoming very long. ... The Jagdpanther (Hunting Panther) was a tank destroyer built by Germany during World War II based on the chassis of the Panther tank. ... The Museum The Museum features military vehicles, weapons, war memorabilia, a library, a photographic archive, and an art collection. Items in the Museum are not necessarily British, and include other nations at war at the time, primarily France, the United States, Germany, Italy, and Russia. Its vast collection contains over 15,000 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, and over 30,000 posters. According to the Museum, its collection includes "objects ranging from aircraft, armoured fighting vehicles and naval vessels to uniforms, badges, personal equipment, and medals and decorations; documents, both British and foreign; printed books comprising a national reference library of over 155,000 items; 120 million feet of cine film and over 6,500 hours of video tape; over 6 million photographs and photographic negatives." The grandeur of its collection has transformed the museum into an archive and art museum, as well. Outside the main entrance of the museum are mounted two 15" naval guns from former Royal Navy warships. The left-hand gun was mounted in HMS Ramillies, a Revenge-class battleship, from 1916 to 1941. The right-hand gun was mounted in another Revenge-class battleship, HMS Resolution, from 1915 to 1938, and then in the monitor HMS Roberts, where it took part in the D-Day bombardments. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ... HMS Ramillies was a Revenge-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after the battle of Ramillies. ... HMS Royal Sovereign The Revenge-class battleships were five battleships of the Royal Navy, ordered as World War I loomed on the horizon, and launched in 1914–1916. ... HMS Victory in 1884. ... HMS Royal Sovereign The Revenge-class battleships were five battleships of the Royal Navy, ordered as World War I loomed on the horizon, and launched in 1914–1916. ... HMS Victory in 1884. ... HMS Resolution was a Revenge-class battleship of the Royal Navy. ... USS Monitor became the prototype of a form of ship built by several navies for coastal defence in the 1860s and 1870s and known as a monitor. ... This is a list of monitors of the Royal Navy: Humber-class HMS Severn HMS Humber HMS Mersey Abercrombie-class HMS Abercrombie HMS Havelock HMS Raglan HMS Roberts Lord Clive-class HMS Lord Clive HMS General Craufurd HMS Earl of Peterborough HMS Sir Thomas Picton HMS Prince Eugene HMS Prince... Land on Normandy In military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. ... Current exhibits There is a special exhibit devoted to the World War II Holocaust, showcasing its horrors and brutality. The exhibit, which was opened on D-Day (June 6, 2000, was in part funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. This article is becoming very long. ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... Land on Normandy In military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. ... June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... A play here! sign outside a newsagent, incorporating the National Lotterys logo of a stylised hand with crossed fingers. ... History Originally located inside the Imperial Institute (now Imperial College), the Imperial War Museum was moved temporarily to the Crystal Palace, located atop Sydenham Hill. The Museum was founded there in 1917 to commemorate those who had died in World War I (which was still being fought at the time). When that building burned down on November 30, 1936, a new location had to be found, and a building in Lambeth was settled on. That building, designed by Sydney Smirke, had originally been a psychiatric hospital, Bethlem Royal Hospital (otherwise known as "Bedlam"), located in St. George's Fields. In 1939, the Museum began including things relating to World War II, and then finally in 1953 it began its current policy of including memorabilia from all modern British conflicts. Tanaka Business School, Imperial College Imperial College London is a college of the University of London which focuses on science and technology, and is located in the South Kensington district of West London. ... Royal School of Mines Entrance Imperial College London is a college of the University of London which focuses on science and technology, and is located in South Kensington in London. ... The Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1851. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire Canada France Italy Russian Empire United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria German Empire Ottoman Empire Commanders Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Sir Arthur Currie Ferdinand Foch Nicholas II Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Reinhard Scheer Franz Josef I Oskar Potiorek Ä°smail Enver Ferdinand I... November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days remaining. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Lambeth is a place in the London Borough of Lambeth. ... Sydney Smirke (born 1798; died 1877) was a British architect during the 19th century. ... A psychiatric hospital (also called at various places and times, mental hospital, mental ward, asylum or sanitarium) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ... The Bethlem Royal Hospital of London, which has been variously known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlem Hospital, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is the worlds oldest psychiatric hospital. ... Look up Bedlam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Obelisk at St. ... Visiting the Museum Entrance is free, though there may be charges for special exhibits. Donations are accepted. It is open daily, 10.00 am – 6.00 pm. Nearest Underground stations Lambeth North tube station Waterloo station Southwark tube station Elephant & Castle station Lambeth North tube station is a London Underground station at Lambeth. ... A 1948 poster showing the main concourse. ... Categories: Jubilee Line stations | London Underground stubs ... Bakerloo line entrance Elephant & Castle station in Elephant and Castle in the London Borough of Southwark, England consists of a main line railway station, serving various suburban stations within south London, and a tube station. ... Nearest railway stations Waterloo station Elephant & Castle station A 1948 poster showing the main concourse. ... Bakerloo line entrance Elephant & Castle station in Elephant and Castle in the London Borough of Southwark, England consists of a main line railway station, serving various suburban stations within south London, and a tube station. ... Other branches The Museum also has several other branches in the United Kingdom: The Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms [1] Located in the bunker which was operational nerve centre of the British government during World War 2. HMS Belfast [2] A light cruiser moored in the Thames. The Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridge [3] An aerospace museum, including many military aircraft. The Imperial War Museum North (Manchester) [4] Opened in 2002 to provide access to the people of the North to the museum's collections. The public entrance to the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms is a small hole on the corner of a very grand building. ... This article is becoming very long. ... HMS Belfast (C35) is an Edinburgh-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. ... USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, launched in 1992. ... The Thames (pronounced []) is a river flowing through southern England and connecting London with the sea. ... American Air Museum Duxford General Dynamics F-111 A B-52 up close The Imperial War Museum Duxford in Cambridgeshire, commonly referred to simply as Duxford, houses the Imperial War Museums aircraft collection, as well as having a large collection of tanks, military and naval vehicles. ... Map of the Cambridgeshire area (1904) The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Look up aerospace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The main entrance of the Imperial War Museum North, with the air shard tower. ... The City of Manchester is a major city and metropolitan borough in the North of England, historically notable for its central role in the Industrial Revolution. ... External links Imperial War Museum official website Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Imperial War Museum Map Historical picture of Bethlem Royal Hospital (current location of the IWM) Information on the 15" guns outside the museum's main entrance Museums and Galleries in London British Museum · Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms · Design Museum · Dulwich Picture Gallery · Estorick Collection · Freud Museum · Geffrye Museum · Hayward Gallery · HMS Belfast · Horniman Museum · Imperial War Museum · London's Transport Museum · Museum of London · Museum of Performance · National Gallery · National Maritime Museum · National Portrait Gallery · Natural History Museum · Royal Academy of Arts · Saatchi Gallery · Science Museum · Sir John Soane's Museum · Somerset House – Courtauld Gallery, Gilbert Collection, Hermitage Rooms · Tate Britain · Tate Modern · Victoria and Albert Museum · V&A Museum of Childhood · Wallace Collection · Whitechapel Art Gallery Categories: 1917 establishments | Archives in England | Military museums in England | Museums in London | Museums sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport | Southwark | War and conflict museums Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... Wikimedia Commons logo by Reid Beels The Wikimedia Commons (also called Commons or Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... There are over 240 museums in London. ... The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, with a tessellated glass roof by Foster and Partners surrounding the original Reading Room. ... The public entrance to the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms is a small hole on the corner of a very grand building. ... The Design Museum is a museum in Shad Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London. ... Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, London. ... The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is a museum in Canonbury Square in the district of Islington on the northern fringes of central London. ... Sigmund Freuds couch used during psychoanalytic sessions can be found at the Freud Museum In 1938, the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, left Vienna after the Nazi annexation of Austria and moved to London, taking up residence at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, Londons most intellectual suburb. ... Geffrye Museum frontage. ... Hayward Gallery, London The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the South Bank Centre, situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England. ... HMS Belfast (C35) is an Edinburgh-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. ... Categories: Museum stubs | London attractions ... Metropolitan Railway steam locomotive number 23, the only surviving locomotive from the worlds first underground railway, is preserved in the museum Londons Transport Museum, formerly known as the London Transport Museum, is a museum which seeks to conserve and explain the transport heritage of London, the capital city... Interior showing the Mayors state coach The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Palaeolithic to the present day. ... The Museum of Performance (formerly the Theatre Museum) in the Covent Garden district of London is the United Kingdoms national museum of the performing arts. ... The National Gallery from Trafalgar Square The National Gallery is an art gallery in London, located on the north side of Trafalgar Square. ... The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom, and one of the most important in the world. ... The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in central London which was opened in 1856. ... The Natural History Museum from the south east The Natural History Museum, one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum), is home to life and earth science collections comprising some 70 million items. ... This article refers to an art institution in London. ... The Saatchi Gallery building in Chelsea opens in early 2007 The Saatchi Gallery, a London gallery for contemporary modern art, was opened by Charles Saatchi in order to show his sizeable (and changing) collection to the public. ... The National Science Museum in London The Science Museum on Exhibition Road, Kensington, London, is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry. ... The Soane Museum is a museum of architecture, and was formerly the house and studio of Sir John Soane. ... The central courtyard of Somerset House in London. ... The Courtauld Institute of Art is a listed organisation of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. ... The Gilbert Collection was formed by the English businessman Sir Arthur Gilbert, who made most of his fortune in the property business in California. ... The Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House in London are a venue for temporary exhibitions of items from the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg in Russia. ... Tate Britain is a part of the Tate Gallery in Britain, along with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. ... Tate Modern from the Millennium Bridge Tate Modern from St Pauls Cathedral. ... The Cromwell Road entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum viewed from Thurloe Square The main interior courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2004. ... Exterior of the museum The official opening of the Bethnal Green Museum by the Prince of Wales in 1872. ... The Wallace Collection is a national art museum located in London. ... The Whitechapel Gallery, founded 1901, was one of the first publicly-funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London. ...

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	Imperial War Museum North - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (249 words) The main entrance of the Imperial War Museum North, with the air shard tower. The Imperial War Museum North is a war museum in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The museum features an exhibit called The Big Picture; once an hour, the lights in the main exhibition hall are lowered, photographs and quotations from scenes of war are projected onto all of the walls, and recordings of events echo around the hall. Imperial War Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (259 words) The museum was founded there in 1917 to commemorate those who died during the First World War. The museum concentrates on conflicts of the 20th century and later. There is a special Holocaust exhibit in the museum showcasing the horrors and brutality of the Holocaust.
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