Press
IWM London, located on Lambeth Road, explores how the history of modern conflict affects us all, from the front line to the home front. Exhibits range from tanks and aircraft to photographs and personal letters; they include film and sound recordings and some of the twentieth century's best-known paintings.
Visitors can explore six floors of exhibitions and displays, including a large exhibits gallery, First World War and Second World War galleries, The Lord Ashcroft Gallery: Extraordinary Heroes, and a number of temporary exhibitions. IWM London also holds regular public events and informal learning sessions. Many of the world’s leading experts on all aspects of modern conflict work at IWM London.
Factsheets and Background Information
- An introduction to The Lord Ashcroft Gallery by Principal Historian Nigel Steel
- Facts and Figures on the Victoria Cross and George Cross
- Seven Qualities of Bravery
Images
To download high-resolution images, free for press use, please use the Press Extranet.
Filming
Find out about filming in IWM London.
Contact Us/Press Visits
For more information or to arrange a press visit to IWM London please contact:
Bryony Phillips, Senior Press Officer, bphillips@iwm.org.uk / 020 7416 5316
Nina Smetek, Press Officer, nsmetek@iwm.org.uk / 020 7091 3069
Kate Crowther, Press and Marketing Assistant, kcrowther@iwm.org.uk / 020 7416 5497
Press releases
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Build the Truce
Released: 10 May 2012 3:44am
Build the Truce, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, showcases for the first time films, interviews and insights - collected as part of an IWM learning project - looking into concepts of truce, conflict and resolution and how they are relevant to us in the twenty-first century.
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IWM Film wins Award
Released: 14 May 2012 11:25am
IWM Film Archive’s Britain at War wins prestigious FOCAL International Award.
- A Family in Wartime Released: 15 March 2012 9:33am
- 2012 Visual Arts Exhibitions and Displays at IWM Released: 15 December 2011 10:58am
- IWM London Listings January to March 2012 Released: 9 December 2011 4:11pm
- IWM First World War Centenary Galleries Win Heritage Lottery Fund Support Released: 14 November 2011 11:47am
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Ori Gersht: This Storm Is What We Call Progress
Released: 5 December 2011 9:38am
This Storm Is What We Call Progressis a significant new exhibition of work by the Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht. The display, opening in the week the UK marks Holocaust Memorial Day, consists of two recent film works that reflect on individuals’ life experiences shaped by the Second World War, alongside a series of new photographs.
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War Story
Released: 6 October 2011 10:24am
This autumn, ten years after British troops first entered Afghanistan, IWM London presents War Story: Serving in Afghanistan, a new intereactive display where visitors will be able to delve into the world of service personnel and encounter first-hand accounts of their evereyday life on the ground.
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Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin
Released: 23 September 2011 2:54pm
Shaped by War is the largest-ever UK exhibition about the life and work of one of the world's most acclaimed photographers, Don McCullin.
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Memory Remains
Released: 23 September 2011 2:50pm
IWM London brings you Memory Remains, a bold new photographic exhibition by artist Francesc Torres to mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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