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Imperial War Museums

April 2024

  • A young rebel fighter in Liberia.

    ‘He could create beauty out of horror’: the extraordinary life and photography of Tim Hetherington

    He joined rebel convoys in Africa and turned his time with GIs in Afghanistan into an Oscar-nominated film. But his subject wasn’t war – it was people. Ahead of a major show, our writer remembers his former colleague

November 2023

  • Recently cleaned … Gassed by John Singer Sargent, the six-metre wide centrepiece of the new galleries.

    ‘When is it too early to teach your kids about genocide?’ Inside the Imperial War Museum’s harrowing new galleries

  • Luke Turner

    Why I’m campaigning for the £1 cuppa to be available all around Britain

    Luke Turner

October 2023

  • Detail from John Singer Sargent’s painting Gassed.

    ‘It glows’: restorer removes queasy look from first world war painting Gassed

    John Singer Sargent picture of soldiers blinded by mustard gas, the most popular at the Imperial War Museum, is seen in new light

September 2023

  • Noor Inayat Khan

    From brave women to fake heads, UK show explores the many facets of spying

    Imperial War Museum exhibition will tell story of Noor Inayat Khan as it recounts tales of courage, ingenuity and deception

May 2023

  • Glass of elegant whiskey with ice cubes on black stone table.

    Brief letters
    Sipping on a record measure of brandy

    Brief letters: Scrooge-like drinks | Honouring peace campaigners | Brexit Beano boom | Wartime comfort
  • Belfast Dividing Line<br>View of a hastily constructed barbed wire fence that runs across a terraced street to mark a peace line or dividing line between republican and neighbouring loyalist areas of Belfast, Northern Ireland during The Troubles in April 1972. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

    Northern Ireland: Living With the Troubles review – an incomplete snapshot of the conflict

    Imperial War Museum, London
    The exhibition exploring 30 years of strife has plenty of atmosphere and features voices from all sides but lacks clarity of purpose
  • Charlotte Higgins

    War has shown Ukrainians – and the rest of us – why museums are so important for telling our stories

    Charlotte Higgins
    Objects from the front line bear bloodstained witness – not just to what happened, but to Ukraine’s very existence, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

April 2023

  • a soldier sights down his rifle in a pedestrianised street

    Imperial War Museum to exhibit conflicting perspectives on Troubles

    London museum will display array of testimonies and archive photographs collected over the years

April 2022

  • Rowan Moore

    Notebook
    The Tree of Trees jubilee sculpture is yet another mound of ill-judged public art

    Rowan Moore
    Thomas Heatherwick has been compared to Michelangelo, but this cartoon version of nature is no David

March 2022

  • The Holocaust Galleries.

    Imperial War Museum in London to keep donation from Roman Abramovich

    Museum says decision to retain funding for Holocaust Galleries complies with UK sanctions against Russian oligarch

February 2022

  • Rowan Moore

    Why the Holocaust learning centre is set for the wrong location

    Rowan Moore
  • Nicoletta Tomassi, an IWM art conservator, checks and cleans Scene in an Underground Train, 1943: Workers returning from night shift, by Ruskin Spear

    Imperial War Museum to use billionaire’s gift to open new galleries

October 2021

  • ‘The effect is powerful’ … glass pillars tell individuals’ stories in the IWM London’s new Holocaust Galleries.

    Imperial War Museum Holocaust Galleries review – history’s greatest horror

    Under glaring lights, the IWM’s new permanent exhibit lays bare the unspeakable atrocity through the small, human details

August 2021

  • Kitty Hart-Moxon, who preserved the numbers she had cut out of her own arm and that of her mother, with her grandson Michael Hart

    Exhibition to show 50 contemporary portraits of Holocaust survivors

    Imperial War Museum display shows survivors alongside younger generations of their families

June 2021

  • Gareth Southgate and Harry Kane at Wembley 18 June 2021

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: 606; Mitchell on Meetings; Instant Genius; Conflict of Interest

  • A visitor being shown exhibits at Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds, UK.

    Top 10 museum renovations and reopenings in England for 2021

May 2021

  • Moving … For Sama director Waad Al-Kateab joins Carey Mulligan to discuss Syria in the Conflict of Interest podcast.

    Battle station: the celebrity podcast that explains modern warfare

    Carey Mulligan on Syria, playwright James Graham on the Troubles … the Imperial War Museums’ new podcast brings celebrities and experts together to understand recent armed struggles

April 2021

  • Battle of Britain, 1941, Paul Nash (1889–1946) IWM (Imperial War Museums), Photo credit IWM (Imperial War Museums)

    The Great British Art Tour
    The Great British Art Tour: smoke tracks in a summer sky and Britain’s fight for survival

    With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Paul Nash’s Battle of Britain at the Imperial War Museum London

March 2021

  • A gallery assistant poses with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s new artwork, History of Bombs, at the Imperial War Museum in London.

    Brief letters
    War and peace both need art funding

    Test and trace | Art | Signs of spring | Lecterns | Twins
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