Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museum:

On visiting the Imperial War Museum I was thoroughly disappointed. After queuing for over an hour to visit the blitz exhibition I was able to be part of a 10minute tour showing how it would have been like living during the Second World War. I was disappointed because on visiting the exhibition as a young child I remember the experience better. Instead the benches didn't shake as much and the tour was very quick on a positive note the way that they recreated life during the Second World War was good because they recreated smells and events which would have occurred at that time.


Within this gallery I cam across this image where you see several people in the background and a guy which has been injured is being escorted. I felt this was a powerful image especially with the text which was next to it 'Only the dead have seen the end of war.'

Another image from the same gallery which I found interesting was the one with a child sitting on her bed. This was a moving image because when I think of war I think of those whom were either fighting on the front lines, the injured or those in the factories and you forget about the young children who are innocent and don't understand what is happening. Again with this image the caption 'War is part of God's creation' fitted well with the image because children are also part of 'God's Creation.'

On walking around the museum it was nice to spend time with other students and look at public transport of that time, tanks, bombs etc which would have been used during the war, and because we are not used to seeing them was nice to see the way they have been preserved for people to see them.