Imperial War Museum London (FREE War Museum in LONDON, ENGLAND!)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- A tour of the free Imperial War Museum in London, England, one of the city’s most popular museums and a great place to learn about the history of some of the world’s most terrible wars & conflicts.
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The Imperial War Museum London is located close to the South Bank of the River Thames in London, England and is a great way to spend half a day. It’s free to get in and there’s plenty to walk around once inside. When I visited there were permanent displays set up for World War I and World War II, Witnesses to War, Holocaust Galleries and Peace & Security 1945-2015. All of them were uniquely interesting and well presented.
Visiting the Imperial War Museum in London is a learning experience, there’s lots of info boards and signs describing what you are seeing and putting it all into context. There’s also lots of exhibits to see and walk around. Inside the museum there’s a cafe and small shop that I forgot to show in the video. If you’re looking for free stuff to do in London then this museum should definitely be on your list. Enjoy the tour!
📖 CHAPTERS:
📖 00:00 Intro
📖 00:59 Tibetan Peace Garden in London
📖 1:44 Inside the Museum
📖 03:53 World War I Galleries
📖 05:22 World War II Galleries
📖 07:49 Witnesses to War
📖 09:16 Lord Ashcroft Gallery
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Hi Matt, thank you for sharing..God Bless all the people who lost their lives during the WWII .My father was in 2 wars as my grandfather, they both survived ,but lost their home .🙏🙏
Hi Matt. This video reminded me of my late father in law. He used to take my son there very often. My son is nearly 17 now. When he was younger, he was obsessed with trains, plains and everything to do with history. He even made me join a Normanis re-enactment society when he was 7. We used to go to any free war museum going and spend hours there. I actually learnt so much through my son. I haven't been in this particular museum myself so it was good to see it with your eyes.
Thanks for watching Olga, glad it brought back some good memories, sounds like your son had some great education in his childhood. Love the story about the re-enactment society, very dedicated 😃.
So neat and cool seeing Imperial War Museum for free. So much ti see and learn about that era. Thumbs up! 13
Thanks, it's always good to visit a free museum!
Thanks! Very educational and very interesting👌
Glad it was helpful!
Never seen a car melted like that. We were able to go to that famous spot in Sarajevo. Creative way to show the number of ships sank. Rolls Royce even makes fancy engines!
That's amazing you've been to that spot in Sarajevo - Bosnia is definitely on my list of places to visit. Yes I thought the same about the number of ships, really helped to visualise the sheer amount of lost ships! You can't beat a Rolls Royce engine!
Great sharing friend,u do good work😃
Thank you! Cheers!
The Tibetan Peace Garden was lovely, and the flowers for the people of Ukraine very poignant given the rest of the video! I really enjoyed this video as much as I like museums, I often find there's just so much information and how do you know what's the best/most interesting things and I tucker myself out sifting through less interesting things to get to the good stuff. I feel like you talked about the things that really stood out to you. The boats exhibit was very well done, seems so simple when you see it, but whoever came up with that visual representation did very well with the creative thinking of how to get the message across.
Yes there was some real contrast between the peace garden and the museum itself, an interesting combination for sure. I loved the boats visualisation too, really helped me appreciate just how many were destroyed! I found the video a lot harder to make than I thought, working out what to include and what to leave out was hard - in the end I thought I would go with an overview and not get too deep into the details. Like you said, there's so much to see and learn.
Been watching your lovely videos for a while now,loved the bulgaria ones,because of you we booked holiday there.you sound like a essex boy,im a cockney not many of me left debs xx ps your a 💎
Thanks Debs, very kind of you to say! Loved my time in Plovdiv, what a great city! Glad I inspired you to visit - what did you get up to whilst you were there?
@@MattWhitingsEurope i have a couple videos on it on my channel debs xx
I'll take a look.
The 15 inch guns are from HMS Ramillies and HMS Resolution
Thanks for the information, very interesting.
I had been before the big refurbishment.
What a disappointment it is now.
This was supposed to be a museum dedicated to the lives of the British and Commonwealth service personnel that have fought in conflicts since 1914. Previously they had a wealth of exhibits that took us through the lives, the human cost, their valour, their leadership, their endurance and resilience and their sacrifice, with 1000's of artefacts telling those stories. We could see their uniforms, their equipment, their weapons and it allowed us to imagine their experience. It didn't glorify war but made you aware those involved were just like us.
If memory serves me right, we moved from The Great War, into World War Two and the conflicts since: Korea, Northern Ireland, The Falklands, Gulf War One and Two, and through these exhibits we took no glory in these conflict but it allowed us to see what our forces had to contend with. Seeing the POW uniforms of Gulf War RAF pilots gave the news reports a validity; this was real people with a real story who suffered real hardship.
On my return, I was truly disappointed to see that although the WW1 exhibit is still in place, everything else has been distilled, dumbed down if I am being frank, in to half a dozen exhibits at best. Falklands? An Exocet, a winter warfare DPM jacket for a war artist and some newspaper cuttings. That's it. The conflict that has influenced UK society almost as much as the two World Wars summed up like that.
Korea? I saw nothing. Northern Ireland: an armoured car, some local artist's work and a audio track.
The counter argument maybe that in its old form it did not educate but now, all it lends itself to is a 90 minute school trip with edited high lights of conflict. School children were there in their 100's, but in reality I dont thing they learned anything useful.
The Holocaust exhibition: this was excellent. People were visibly moved and it pulled no punches. But why was it there?
The Holocaust, as appalling and shocking as it was, was the policy of a fascist German government of extermination of any one it decreed to be less than human.
This did not reflect anything to do with the lives of British servicemen, which was the whole reason for the museum. This heart breaking and thoughtful exhibition could be somewhere else, and the space be returned to the purpose of the museum. If I was being cynical, I would say this is aimed at footfall from American tourists who nationally still feel the angst of being unable to prevent Hitler from building his death camps. It has no relevance to UK armed forces, other than the overall strategic objective of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany in the shortest time possible.
Buy the £5 guide, it has pictures of almost all the exhibits out side of the Holocaust or the Great War. You could just head off after that.
I will not return
Hello Kenneth, this is interesting reading and I certainly understand your point of view. I didn't realise it had changed so much as this was my first visit - I guess that's the problem. Thanks for your detailed and thought provoking comment.
is there any pieces of Fuhrerbunker here?
Not that I can remember I'm afraid.
cringe. Let's take the family to the Imperialist War Museum where war is glorified and we can also see all kinds of looted Art and Sculputure.
It’s not glorifying war it’s showing historical items from time periods and the only thing cringe is…….YOU😮😮😮 have a great day.
Yeah let’s erase history and pretend it never happened because you personally don’t like it. Cause erasing history has worked so well in the past eh 🤦🏻♂️
Cringe?, you must be a bore to live with. Utter 🤡