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Imperial War Museum London >> Support Us >> Opportunities and Successes |
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OpportunitiesSuccessesOpportunitiesYour History Your History is a brand new gallery and visitor space at Imperial War Museum London. This exciting new initiative will give visitors a focal point for enquiries and access to our vast collections. It will allow people to find out more about their own and our collective history through our digitised and physical collections. Your History is comprised of three main areas; a Discovery Gallery – where people can browse the collections in an almost casual manner, a Research Room for a more in-depth look and a discussion space which acts as a bridge between the two spaces for talks and formal and informal visits. It is estimated that a third of Imperial War Museum London visitors (250,000 people) would access this facility. Digitisation In 2004 the Imperial War Museum embarked on a major digitisation programme funded by the National Lottery to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Since then, further digitisation of the Museum’s Film and Video Archive has been made possible by a grant from the Public Sector Research Exploitation fund. To date, highlights of digitised content from Collections include:
The digitisation programme will ensure that the Museum services an increasingly large and diverse worldwide audience and remains a vital and relevant resource for the future The Museum continues to digitise its collections and is currently working on digitising its First World War and Post 1945 material. Digitising the collections ensures that the Museum services an increasingly large and diverse worldwide audience and remains a vital and relevant resource for future generations. In Memoriam: Remembering the Great War, Autumn 2008
To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, this major exhibition based on personal stories will include a bierstein presented to the captain of the winning British football team during the Christmas Truce match of 1914 and a rose from the wreath that lay on the coffin of the unknown warrior six years later. To complement the exhibition, IWM is running a composition competition for music students to compose a short piece for string quartet. Shortlisted entries will be recorded by the Solaris String Quartet and used in the exhibition. The competition is supported by the Royal Philharmonic Society. Children’s Activity Gallery The Children’s Activity Gallery is due to open in autumn 2009. This new and innovative three-year gallery space at Imperial War Museum London will be designed to promote family exploration of our subject matter. Street Genius This year, for the first time, four sixth-form students (16/17 years) are working with a range of Museum staff (exhibitions, events, marketing, design and research and information) to create, launch and market a small touring exhibition to support the Museum’s In Memoriam exhibition. The effect during and post-First World War on Lambeth and Southwark is the focus of this exhibition aimed at young people in these boroughs. Street Genius will give the students involved valuable skills in communication, project management and team work. Subject to funding, this project will be repeated next summer with a new group of students mounting an exhibition that supports the Museum’s exhibition programme.
SuccessesFor Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond In April this year the Museum opened its doors to one of our most popular exhibitions to date, For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond. The exhibition is a successful collaboration between the Fleming Family and the Imperial War Museum to bring the iconic character of James Bond to life while commemorating Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming. The exhibition is a key part of the Fleming Family’s centenary celebrations. The Museum obtained support for the exhibition from Fleming Family & Partners and the PF Charitable Trust. The exhibition also gave us an opportunity to collaborate with The Times as our Media Partner who has, among other things, created an online For Your Eyes Only interactive preview of our exhibition and a map for readers to discover Bond and Fleming’s London haunts. For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond is on until 1 March 2009. The Imperial War Museum poster collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind in Britain. Containing over 15,000 works, many by leading twentieth century designers from Britain and abroad, it is a bold visual documentation of the social, political, ethical, and cultural aspirations of different nations over the last century.
The exhibition was generously supported by Ogilvy, CBS Outdoor and Kinetic. Oi! was an exhibition of graphic design posters designed and produced by young people from Lambeth. The Imperial War Museum worked in partnership with the London College of Communication (LCC) to offer a unique opportunity to 12-17 year olds in the London borough of Lambeth. The young people spent time with the Museum’s art team looking at its vast collection of posters that cover almost all of the 20th Century. Subjects examined included issues of design, propaganda and language, as well as the fundamentals of communication. Inspired by the images and discussions the young people worked with the LCC to design and produce posters that communicated a message of importance to them. Their work was showcased in an exhibition at the LCC in April this year. This project was made possible through funding from the Lambeth Endowed Charities.
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