Imperial War Museum Duxford
Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England. Britain's largest aviation museum, Duxford houses the museum's large exhibits, including nearly 200 aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels in seven main exhibition buildings. The site also provides storage space for the museum's other collections of material such as film, photographs, documents, books and artefacts. The site accommodates several British Army regimental museums, including those of the Parachute Regiment and the Royal Anglian Regiment.
The AirSpace exhibition hall at Imperial War Museum Duxford (October 2009)
K9795, a Spitfire Mk I operated from Duxford by No. 19 Squadron in 1938.
78th Fighter Group P-51D Mustangs at Duxford in summer 1945.
The Duxford Aviation Society Comet 4 on display in AirSpace.
The Imperial War Museum (IWM), currently branded "Imperial War Museums", is a British national museum. It is headquartered in London, with five branches in England. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, it was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of the United Kingdom and its Empire during the First World War. The museum's remit has since expanded to include all conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces have been involved since 1914. As of 2012, the museum aims "to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and 'wartime experience'."
Imperial War Museum London
Sir Alfred Mond, photographed between 1910 and 1920.
The Imperial Institute, South Kensington, where the museum was located from 1924 to 1936
15-inch guns outside the museum; the nearer gun from HMS Ramillies, the other from HMS Resolution