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According to this site, which is very recent, yes

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/london/n ... LyrIJLLTf8

The picture inside the museum looks pretty tacky, if I was making a museum about Sir Winston Churchill it would be made from bricks, not chrome! (for those who don't know, bricklaying was his hobby)

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Col. Rohr wrote:
Hi All,

Yes I know its a litle off topic but could one of are English friends tell us if the new display at the IWM is going to be still opening on Feb. 11 the reason I ask is I have a friend who is leaving to go to London for the next three weeks and I told him about it.

Thanks in advance
RER


Rob
the new Churchill museum is at the Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall, not actually at the IWM, which is in South East London.
The CWR's are however run by the IWM.
For your information the IWM oversees the museum itself, The CWR's, HMS Belfast on the river near tower bridge and IWM Duxford in Cambridgeshire.
There's also an IWM 'North' somewhere in the North but I've never been there and don't know where it is.
Hope this helps.
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Andy in Beds wrote:
[There's also an IWM 'North' somewhere in the North but I've never been there and don't know where it is.
Hope this helps.
Andy


Manchester - another weird modern building with some deep meaning, apparently.


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Manchester - another weird modern building with some deep meaning, apparently.[/quote]

Actually it is a excellent building designed by architectural "wunderkind"
Daniel Liebeskind

But don't go there expecting it to simply be an artefact repository like Lambeth or Duxford - there are few artefacts as such but the audio-visual displays are extremely powerful - and I have to say the place is far more thought provoking than the other two "conventional" sites I mentioned

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Having seen it, only on the TV to be fair, with Dan Cruikshank prowling around it and interviewing the architect, I stick by my original opinion of the building.
The contents I can't comment on as I haven't seen them.


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