"Imperial War Museum will be closed for first half of 2014" Topic

One to be aware of if you were looking to visit the Imperial War Museum in the first half of 2014.

From the Imperial War Museum website iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-london

'IWM London is undergoing a major building redevelopment, transforming our museum to mark the Centenary of the First World War, and on 6 January the museum will close until July 2014.'

Ezza

A most excellent place to spend a day while in London. Was lucky enough to do so on a Bank holiday years ago (no crowd).

Dan

f you are going to London for the first time and are interested in Military History the Imperial War Museum is a tourist necessity as important as the Tower of London or British Museum

If you are planning a trip to London and was looking forward to your first visit to the IWM, I would suggest that you postpone your trip until it reopens. It is that good.

The Army museum is pretty nice also and if I recall a nice walk from the nearest tube stop.

Dan

Agree about the IWM – but you could make do with the NAM (Sloane Square Tube), RAF Museum Hendon (Colindale Tube), and HMS Belfast (Tower Hill Tube).

That's a shame. It ties in well with my annual pilgrimage to Salute.

As a side note, the 20th century galleries of the Royal Navy museum in Portsmouth is also closed right now for a new exhibit called "Hear My Story" to be opened next year. Both me and my wife was disappointed to found it closed when we visited in October.