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A Spitfire and a V-2 in the atrium, and six floors of what war did to ordinary people.
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In Imperial War Museum London.
Free, and organised around the people rather than the hardware, though the hardware is the first thing you see: the atrium hangs a Spitfire that flew in the Battle of Britain, a Harrier and a V-2 rocket in the air, with the thirteen-pounder gun that fired the British Army's first shot of the First World War on the floor beneath them.
The First World War Galleries, below ground, tell that war through more than thirteen hundred objects — weapons, uniforms, diaries, keepsakes, film and art — with a trench you walk through, a Sopwith Camel overhead and a Mark V tank blundering across the route. Two floors above hold the Second World War Galleries, fifteen hundred objects including the first piece of the USS Arizona ever shown outside the United States, and The Holocaust Galleries, which opened in 2021 in the same building — the first museum anywhere to put the two under one roof, which is the argument it is making. The Holocaust Galleries are not meant for younger children. Higher again, the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries show what the museum has been commissioning since 1917,, and a permanent 9/11 photography installation opened in September 2026, listed separately here.
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