Added: 01/15/2006 |
The true story about war told by the Imperial War MuseumWhen the Imperial War Museum was founded, one of its functions was to be a memorial to those who had died and suffered in the First World War. It is unique in its coverage of conflicts, especially those involving Britain and the Commonwealth, from the First World War to the present. The Imperial War Museum offers a series of wonderful exhibitions and displays, opening its visitors all the secrets about war procedures, war equipment and machinery.
When the Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917, one of its functions was to be a memorial to those who had died and suffered in the First World War. The Museum has since expanded its remit to include all conflicts, concentrating on British and Commonwealth involvement from 1914 to the present.
The Museum organizes various activities which are held at all its branches: the Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall, the historic ship HMS Belfast, moored in the Pool of London, Imperial War Museum Duxford near Cambridge, and Imperial War Museum North in Trafford.
The Imperial War Museum offers a series of wonderful exhibitions and displays, opening its visitors all the secrets about war procedures, war equipment and machinery.
One of the most popular museum exhibitions is The Big Picture, which transforms all the walls of the main exhibition space for a fantastic audio-visual show. The exhibition presents a unique way for visitors to access the Museum?s world-renowned collections of photography, art and sound. Visitors confess that the moving pictures, accompanied by music, give an impression that past generations come to talk to visitors and move them to tears.
An impressive story is told by objects presented in The Large Objects Exhibition, starting with the artillery piece that fired the first shell from the British side in the First World War and ending up with a famous fire-fighting trailer pump used the Second World War.
Various points of view at the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries are presented in the popular exhibition Silos. The exhibition displays a wide range of objects, such as women's work in wartime and war reporting and propaganda, as well as different works of art, photographs, uniforms, diaries, letters and medals.
Thousands of objects, which can be found in the Imperial War Museum store are exhibited in the Time Stacks. The objects are grouped thematically, so it is easy enough to dive in the internal atmosphere of the following themes: "Escape and Evasion", "War Art", "Land and Air Warfare" and "Cold War".
Letters that are now displayed in the Last Letters exposition used to be the only means of keeping communication. The feelings of loss, fear, loneliness, love, courage, and hope that their writers experienced are expressed in them. They reveal the last thoughts and feelings of those who faced the possibility of never coming home.
Prisoners of war: keeping up moral is another extremely popular exhibition offered by the Imperial War Museum. The exhibition shows how the war people could sometimes escape from all the difficulties, stresses and hardships of war by organizing entertainments of their own. Among them there were football matches, games, concerts and various theatrical performances which kept the prisoners of war extremely busy scavenging for props and costumes, producing handmade programs and writing songs to have fun themselves and to give pleasure to their brethren.
The fascinating exhibition of 30 photographs, a unique collaboration between Imperial War Museum North and one of Russia?s premier news agencies, RIA Novosti, is presented in the exhibition called Soviet Times.
Highlights of First World War Art are displayed in the Witness collection, a special exhibition that reveals the way the First World War shaped lives through the eyes of its artistic witnesses.
Imperial War Museum North cannot forget about Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, and marks it with a series of linked events including talks, film screenings and performances.
So, to sum it all up, the Imperial War Museum is a magnificent museum telling the true story about war.
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