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IWM London Press Desk
New Imperial War Museum Director-General, Diane Lees, Takes Up Post on 1 October
Diane Lees, former Director of the V&A’s Museum of Childhood, takes up post as the new Director-General of the Imperial War Museum on 1 October, with overall responsibility for the Museum’s five branches and collections archives.
In Memoriam: Remembering the Great War
To commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice, Imperial War Museum London is mounting a major exhibition that will look at the personal stories of those who lived, fought and died during the First World War both overseas and on the home front.
Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust
Prompted by a number of remarkable recent acquisitions, Unspeakable is the first opportunity to see together the different artistic responses to the Nazi persecution of the Jews of Europe, from the Imperial War Museum’s Art collection.
HMS Belfast Press Desk
2008 Highlights at Imperial War Museum
2008 Highlights at Imperial War Museum
LAUNCH! Shipbuilding through the ages
HMS Belfast, London’s Floating Naval Museum, is preparing a family-orientated exhibition using hands-on and computerised interactive displays to demonstrate techniques of shipbuilding, from the ‘age of sail’ to modern prefabrication methods.
Jutland Veteran Celebrated as Hologram
Britain’s oldest man and the last known survivor of the Battle of Jutland has been captured as a hologram which can be seen as part of the Ghosts of Jutland exhibition.
IWM North Press Desk
2009 at Imperial War Museum North
Witness: Women War Artists
Imperial War Museum North will launch a major new exhibition in February 2009 focusing on work by women war artists, from the First World War to the Kosovo conflict.
Stranger in the House
Imperial War Museum North presents a small but unique display focusing for the first time on an often unspoken history, that of the plight of women whose lives were affected by the return of their men folk at the end of the Second World War.