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  Welcome to the Imperial War Museum
The wars of the twentieth century have affected each and every one of us in some way, and the Imperial War Museum is here to tell all our stories, covering all aspects of life in wartime.
The Churchill Museum is the first national museum dedicated to Sir Winston Churchill.  It is housed in the unique setting of the Cabinet War Rooms, the underground complex where Churchill and his government met as bombs rained down on London in 1940.
War memorials are a familiar sight in the landscape of the UK (United Kingdom).  They provide insight into not only the changing face of commemoration but also military history, social history and art history.
www.iwm.org.uk   (358 words)

  
  Cabinet War Rooms - LondonHotels.in   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This museum is a permanent exhibition, dedicated to the life and works of Winston Churchill, housed within the Cabinet War Rooms.
This underground room was the ideal to place to direct his War Cabinet, throughout the air raids that were, anticipated at the time.
This room was for Churchill’s meetings, with an elite, few, ministers and advisors from the War Cabinet and the Defence Committee.
www.londonhotels.in /wiki/index.php/Cabinet_War_Rooms   (316 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: London War Rooms Add Churchill Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Cabinet War Rooms are a remarkable underground warren of meeting rooms, claustrophobic sleeping quarters and bulky communications equipment buried beneath the Treasury building near No. 10 Downing St. and Parliament.
The Churchill Museum -- a project of the Imperial War Museum, which budgeted about $11.3 million for the initiative -- is an expansion into existing space that was part of the original complex.
Churchill ranks as one of the most quotable speakers of the 20th century, and the museum resounds with recordings of his famous speeches.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A63778-2005Feb4?language=printer   (599 words)

  
 Winston Churchill honored by first British museum for a politician   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Douglas Hall, Imperial War Museum via AP A gold-painted ceramic figure of a seated bulldog with the head of Britain's World War II Prime Minister Winston Churchill is among the items on display at the Imperial War Museum in London.
The $11 million Churchill Museum is the first national exhibition to Britain's World War II leader and, its directors say, the first museum in Britain dedicated to a politician.
From there, the museum then jumps back to Churchill's childhood as the son of an affluent, aristocratic politician; his early career as a soldier and journalist in India, Africa and Cuba; and the prewar rise and fall of his roller-coaster political career.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05047/457442.stm   (813 words)

  
 Royal Insight > Out and About > The Queen opens the new Churchill Museum
The new Churchill Museum is an extension to the historic Cabinet War Rooms located in the basement of the Treasury building in Whitehall.
On arrival, Her Majesty was met by The Duke of Kent, President of the Imperial War Museum.
Churchill was apparently initially doubtful that a Queen in her twenties would be able to cope with her new position.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page3753.asp   (523 words)

  
 War Rooms
In War Room for the ColecoVision, tensions between the United States and Russia have escalated to the point of nuclear warfare.
However, the Cabinet War Rooms were vulnerable to a direct hit and were abandoned not long after the war.
In 2003, nine rooms used by Churchill and his closest associates, including his wife, which had been stripped out after the war and used for storage, were added to the museum.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/220/war-rooms.html   (1224 words)

  
 The Churchill Museum is to open this week - combine it with the Cabinet War Rooms for a great family day out
The Cabinet War Rooms were created in 1938 from a storage basement of what is now Her Majesty's Treasury to allow the Prime Minister and the War Cabinet to live and work in safety during enemy bombing raids.
The Cabinet War Rooms was opened to the public in1984 by Her Majesty The Queen.
The Cabinet War Rooms are a branch of the Imperial War Museum.
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 Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms on AboutBritain.com
The Map Room was the hub of daily activities - large scale maps of Britain, Europe and the Far Eastern theatres of war were pasted to the walls; troop movements and battle plans were detailed and perfected from the strategic level.
Such was the importance Churchill attached to the Map Room, his own room is to be found immediately next to it, with an adjoining door.
The War Rooms were significantly expanded during the early forties, adding many more rooms and facilities, not least the Transatlantic Telephone room where a securely encrypted hot line phone to the American President was to be found.
www.aboutbritain.com /ChurchillMuseumAndCabinetWarRooms.htm   (931 words)

  
 The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > Museum Review | Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms: ...
Churchill's presence is strenuously condensed into 9,000 square feet, an underground extension of the bunkerlike basement "war rooms" where, as prime minister during the Second World War, Churchill met with his cabinet whenever the risk aboveground was too great.
This is the first museum in Britain devoted to Churchill, and on Thursday Queen Elizabeth II came to pay tribute to to her first prime minister (when he returned to office in the 1950's) and by all accounts her favorite.
Trumping it all is a 50-foot table dividing the museum's display room in two, a high-tech "Lifeline," that responds (a bit sluggishly) to the movement of fingers on touch panels to "open" a timeline of Churchill's life, potentially displaying 4,600 pages of documents, 1,150 photographs and 206 animations, many erupting in sound and light.
www.nytimes.com /2005/02/11/arts/design/11chur.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=4a0d33da9cb5e189&ex=1265864400&partner=rssuserland   (817 words)

  
 Churchill Museum Opens At Cabinet War Rooms On February 11 - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ...
Churchill became famous when, as a journalist covering the Boer War, he was captured and subsequently escaped with the aid of this revolver.
The new museum also offers the chance to learn more about Churchill’s way of life at Chartwell, the Churchill country home from 1924 to his death in 1965, and there are objects such as his bed table and his paint palette together with some examples of his art work.
The new venue is the first dedicated Churchill museum in the UK and forms the core of the Churchill Project, a major £13.5 million restoration and expansion programme at the site that began when the Cabinet War Rooms managed to seize space freed up by the movement of the Treasury 10 years ago.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /nwh_gfx_en/ART25737.html   (1031 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Queen opens £6m Churchill museum
Paying tribute to Churchill, the Queen said he had given the country "the hope, the courage and the confidence" to survive the war.
Churchill was recently voted by BBC viewers as the greatest Briton of all time.
Museum director Phil Reed said: "Churchill was an icon whose fame and significance still transcends class and generations.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/4252695.stm   (482 words)

  
 Imperial War Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Imperial War Museum is a museum in London featuring military vehicles, weapons, war memorabilia, a library, a photographic archive, and an art collection of 20th century and later conflicts, especially those involving Britain, and the British Empire.
Fragment of the Berlin Wall, in the grounds of the Imperial War Museum.
The Museum was founded there in 1917 to commemorate those who had died in World War I (which was still being fought at the time).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_War_Museum   (583 words)

  
 The Gulbenkian Prize for museums and galleries
Thus the Imperial War Museum took the decision to establish such a museum in 900m² of the Cabinet War Rooms made available by HM Treasury.
The Rooms are an appropriate location, since it was here that Churchill met with his War Cabinet during enemy air attacks in 1940-41 and 1944-45, and it is here that his wartime underground bedroom and ‘hotline’ link to the US President are preserved.
The museum cost £6 million which was raised entirely from donations by private individuals, trusts and corporations.
www.thegulbenkianprize.org.uk /2006/longlist2.htm   (306 words)

  
 Ready for Takeoff - The Boston Globe
Sir Winston Churchill, the man who led Britain through the desperate days of World War II, will be honored with a national museum opening Friday in London at the Cabinet War Rooms complex.
The Churchill Museum will be the heart of the Churchill Project, a $25 million undertaking at the prime minister's once-secret underground war rooms.
Churchill Museum: At the Cabinet War Rooms, Clive Steps, King Charles Street, London; http://churchillmuseum.iwm.org.uk.
www.boston.com /travel/articles/2005/02/06/ready_for_takeoff   (333 words)

  
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The Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms in London is the world's leading museum dedicated to the great man. It welcomes all visitors interested in seeing for themselves the authentic surroundings in which Churchill conducted the war.
Visitors are able to walk the corridors of the secret underground headquarters of the British government where Churchill himself walked, and view the rooms that formed the nerve centre of the British fight against Nazism.
Churchill and the Great Republic is the online version of the exhibition that was on display at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., from February through June 2004.
www.winstonchurchillbc.org /links.htm   (477 words)

  
 Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms Christmas Parties 2006
This package includes room hire, three-course traditional Christmas menu, 1/2 bottle of house wine and 1/2 bottle of mineral water per person, table centres and access to the Churchill Museum and historic rooms.
Package includes room hire, 8 canapés per person, one glass of mulled wine on arrival, two glasses of champagne and access to the Churchill Museum and historic rooms.
Christmas parties at the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms are running throughout December 2006 and are priced at £49.50 plus VAT per person.
www.viewlondon.co.uk /xmas_party_details_224.html   (511 words)

  
 Welcome to the Churchill Museum at the Cabinet War Rooms
The Churchill Museum is divided into five chapters, spanning all ninety years of Churchill's life.
To allow an easy transition from the historical context of the Cabinet War Rooms, the story begins on the 10 May 1940 with Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister.
Most notable among the exhibits is the Lifeline, a fifteen metre-long interactive table, which dominates the Churchill Museum space.
churchillmuseum.iwm.org.uk   (205 words)

  
 Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The public entrance to the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms is a small hole on the corner of a very grand building.
The Churchill Museum and the Cabinet War Rooms share premises in Horse Guards Road opposite St.
Entry to the Churchill Museum and the Cabinet War Rooms is by combined ticket.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Churchill_Museum_and_Cabinet_War_Rooms   (481 words)

  
 United Kingdom: Culture: Museums (Portals to the World, Library of Congress)
The website provides links to the Museum of Scotland, the Museum of Flight, the Museum of Rural Life, Shambellie House Museum of Costume, the National War Museum of Scotland, and the National Piping Centre (which houses the piping collections of the National Museum of Scotland).
The VandA is part of a family of museums consisting of The Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green, a collection one of the world's largest and oldest collections of toys and childhood artifacts dating from the 16th century to the present day, and the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden.
The Theatre Museum is the National Museum of the Performing Arts and houses a collection of material relating to the British stage representing all the live performing arts.
www.loc.gov /rr/international/main/uk/cul-museum.html   (486 words)

  
 ISE Card Featured Discount: Cabinet War Rooms
In August 1939, the Cabinet War Rooms became operational in a former government storage basement, safe from the ferocious air attacks on London.
The thirty rooms of this refuge became the secret nerve centre of Britain's war effort.
The Cabinet War Rooms have been kept exactly as they were before the lights were finally extinguished after 6 years of war.
www.isecard.com /featured/cabinetwarrooms/index.html   (105 words)

  
 London Attractions | London Museums & Palaces @ London Discount Hotel - London hotels at discount prices.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
London is famous for Museums such as the British Museum and the Tate Gallery and for its Palaces, Buckingham Palace which holds the residencies of the Royal Family.
The Imperial War Museum is unique in its coverage of conflicts, especially those involving Britain and the Commonwealth, from the First World War to the present day.
The museum is a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
www.london-discount-hotel.com /london_attractions_9   (2007 words)

  
 Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum, Westminster - London - UK Attraction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It was shortly after the Second World War began that Winston Churchill first visited the Cabinet War Rooms just outside Downing Street.
He immediately decreed “this is the room from which I will direct the war.” These rooms and adjacent museum allow the visitor to see exactly how the British leader coordinated the British and European war efforts against Germany and the Axis nations.
Self-catering accommodation near to Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum
www.ukattraction.com /london/cabinet-war-rooms-and-churchill-museum.htm   (234 words)

  
 Churchill Museum, Cabinet War Rooms, Churchill Museum & Cabinet War Rooms, Museum dedicated to the life of Winston ...
This is the room where Winston Churchill spent the night when it was too dangerous for him to return to his official residence at No. 10 Downing Street.
Churchill, his Chiefs of Staff, and a select few War Cabinet ministers and advisers met in this private chamber during the evening bombing raids of 1940 and 1941.
Closed down one day after the war — August 16, 1945 — the room was left almost exactly as you see it today.
www.lovetoeatandtravel.com /site/intl/london/Fun/war.htm   (298 words)

  
 The Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum Home
Shortly after becoming Prime Minister in May 1940, Winston Churchill visited the Cabinet War Rooms to see for himself what preparations had been made to allow him and his War Cabinet to continue working throughout the expected air raids on London.
It was there, in the underground Cabinet Room, he announced 'This is the room from which I will direct the war'.
The Churchill Museum, the world’s first major museum dedicated to life of Winston Churchill, is a permanent exhibition housed within the unique setting of the historic Cabinet War Rooms.
cwr.iwm.org.uk   (303 words)

  
 Cities of Science - London - Churchill: a scientist who missed his vocation
Churchill was fascinated by science and was always on the look out for fresh ways to fight using new technologies.
Churchill loved new inventions and supported the scientists and engineers working on experimental technologies.
In the second World War, a notable success was the huge undertaking to build mulberrry harbours for the Normandy landings.
www.citiesofscience.co.uk /go/London/ContentPlace_3110.html   (281 words)

  
 History Teaching Place To Go : Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms - Burnt Cakes
Two museums in one - the new Churchill Museum and the underground cabinet meeting rooms from WW2.
The new Churchill Museum clearly focuses on the life and achievements of the 'Greatest ' Briton.
The Cabinet War Rooms are also fascinating, showing the kind of conditions that important decisions were made under during WW2.
www.burntcakes.com /reviews/review_512_ptg.html   (108 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Beds/Bucks/Herts | Dahl museum up for £100,000 prize
The Dahl museum is among 10 on the longlist
The museum, based in Great Missenden, Bucks, is one of 10 museums competing for the Gulbenkian prize, the largest single arts award in the UK.
The Museum of Flight in East Lothian, which tells the story of Concorde, and the Hunterian Museum in London, containing the oldest medical collections in the world, are also up for the prize.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4699996.stm   (263 words)

  
 Delaware Grapevine
The morning of the terrorist attack, Steele and Strine were invited for a private tour of the new Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, a restoration of the underground chambers where Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill and his Cabinet met during the air raids in World War II.
The two judges planned to take the underground, or subway, never expecting to find a cab available as people made their way to work, but one happened to be outside their hotel, so they hailed it.
Steele found historic irony in being safe inside the war rooms that had kept Churchill safe, as well.
www.delawaregrapevine.com /7-05politicking.asp   (542 words)

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