Diane Lees, Director-General of IWM

The Imperial War Museum is a multi-branch national museum founded in 1917 to record the story of the Great War and the contributions made by the peoples of the Empire to it. The Museum and its governing body, the Board of Trustees, were formally established by Act of Parliament in 1920, when the Museum opened in the Crystal Palace. From 1924 to 1935 the Museum was housed in two small galleries adjoining the Imperial Institute. In 1936 it was reopened in the central portion of the former Bethlem Royal Hospital in Lambeth Road, Southwark where it remains.

Abteilungen/Sammlungen: War Artists' Archive (First World War - Second World War), Posters (European posters of the First World War, Spanish Civil War posters), Documents, Exhibits and Firearms (Aircraft, Armoured fighting vehicles and artillery, Medals, Orders and Decorations, Firearms), Film and Video Archive, Photograph Archive, Printed Books (Maps, First World War Women's Work collection, Sound Archive, UK National Inventory of War Memorials, The Churchill Museum (Cabinet War Rooms), HMS Belfast.
Dauerausstellungen: The First World War Galleries, The Second World War Galleries, Conflicts since 1945, Secret War Exhibition, Victoria Cross and George Cross Exhibition, The Art Galleries

mehrere Häuser: IWM London, IWM Duxford, HMS Belfast (London), Churchill War Rooms (London), IWM North (Manchester)