For one of our BES assignments we were to go visit the Imperial War Museum. I also knew my dad would appreciate this one, so that helped me along the way. Getting there was a little interesting. It was in a part of London I hadn't been to before, and the signs confused me at first, no worries though, I found my way!
The outside
Imperial War Museum
Once inside you have to go through the lined area, just in case you want to buy a headset. I decided to pass and I was on my way. As soon as you walk in the room is huge and open. They had airplanes set up and machines all around the floor. Quite the sight. I took my time looking and reading what each one was, don't ask me what they are now as I have forgotten. It was really interesting to see all the vehicles and such that they have from the past wars.
Planes 'flying' around
Just some of the things in the first room
possibly a tank...
Replica of Little Boy
Sign they had with it
After the first main room I ventured through a small exhibit that had to do with submarines. They had displays of what the crew would have kept in a box, what they ate, where they would have slept. Even a hold that children could try out, a hole that the crew would have to go through. You could even smell some of the smells and hear stories from people who had actually been in a submarine. I then headed down to where they had an exhibit on children during the war. That display included clothes they would have warn, belongings they may have taken with them when they had to leave. Stories from grownups about their childhood during the war. they even had a set up of a house and how it would have looked. Very interesting. I made my way through a rather large exhibit of WWI and WWII. I mostly walked and looked at those, if I saw something of interest then I stopped. I did walk through some 'trenches'. I did not do the actual trench exhibit they had, but a different one. I then did an exhibit where you started off in a room and voices came up, we were in a sort of dugout, while bombs were going off. We then heard the boom of the bombs and as these speaking people left, we left too. We followed them through the streets of London, seeing all the damage that was done, just like they would have done. It would have been much more real for them but still sad knowing that all that happened. My next stop was to the Holocaust exhibit. Very moving, and very sad. In one area they had a model of one of the concentration camps. It was one of the main ones so I will say it was Auschwitz, but I could be wrong, I apologize. I walked through that exhibit more slowly, taking my time to look at the things that were there.
After realizing I had spent about three hours in the museum, knowing I had a paper to write, I headed on my way. You definitely need more than three hours to go through that museum!
Once I returned back to Vandon House and ate some lunch. For most of the afternoon I was calling my parents and possibly places to work during the summer. I needed to make back most of that money I spent :s yikes! I then started work on my paper. Boo, papers :)
