Horrible Histories®: Rotten Rationing
Journey back to the woeful Second World War to discover foul food, dig for victory, and make do and mend.
Al-Mutannabi Street: A Reaction
Al-Mutannabi Street: A Reaction is a creative response to a bomb attack on Baghdad’s Al-Mutanabbi Street
Service and Separation
Service and Separation provides a moving insight in the experience of a nurse working in Afghanistan
The War at Home
The War at Home looks at the experience of people on the home front during the Second World War
Remembrance
Remembrance focuses on the different elements of remembrance, from the First World War to Iraq
Children and War
Children and War explores children's perspectives of conflict from the Second World War through to today
Weapons of War
Weapons of War shows how people have manufactured, used, and experienced weapons of war.
Daily in the Main Exhibition Space.
The Big Picture Show is an award-winning 360-degree experience unique to IWM North. Using surround sound, projected digital moving images and photographs, the show brings to life people’s experiences of war. It immerses you in the heart of the action, creating a complete sensory experience which is totally involving, and often very moving.
The original three shows use IWM's world-renowned collections of photography, art and sound to highlight the themes of the home front, weapons and children’s experiences of war.
Our new Big Picture Show shorts focus on a street bombing in Baghdad in 2007, the experiences of a volunteer nurse in Afghanistan, the theme of Remembrance, and conflict resolution and the notion of truce.
Big Picture Show times
Weekdays
- 11am: Rotten Rationing
- Noon: War at Home
- 1pm: Children and War
- 2pm: Remembrance
- 3pm: Weapons of War
- 4pm: Service and Separation: A Volunteer Nurse in Afghanistan
- 4.30pm: Al-Mutanabbi Street: A Reaction
Weekends/school holidays
- 11am: Rotten Rationing
- Noon: War at Home
- 1pm: Children and War
- 2pm: Rotten Rationing
- 3pm: Remembrance
- 4pm: Weapons and War
- 4.30pm: Al-Mutanabbi Street: A Reaction
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Eating and Drinking
Overlooking MediaCityUK and The Quays, the WaterShard Café is a relaxing place to take a break during your visit.
From our Collections
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The Falklands Conflict, April - June 1982
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Admiralty Message announcing the use of codename Operation Dynamo for the evacuation of the BEF, May 1940
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VE Day mug
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The Allied Campaign in North West Europe, 6 June - 7 May 1945
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Royal Proclamation on the Reduction of Domestic Bread Consumption, May 1917
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The Campaign in Italy, May 1944
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Brussels, VE Day 3
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The Battle for Crete, 20 - 31 May 1941
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Liberated from Belsen Concentration Camp, 1945
