Breakthrough is a major re-hang of the Imperial War Museum’s collection of British art. The display will incorporate outstanding artworks from the official art schemes of both world wars and significant non-official and contemporary works.

Among the items on display will be work by officially commissioned artists such as Paul Nash, CRW Nevinson, John Piper and Eric Ravilious, as well as some recently acquired paintings by William Scott and Robert Colquhoun.

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Re-Vision: Art at the Imperial War Museum from Crystal Palace to Lambeth Road
Until 12 October 2008

Re-Vision is a new display that chronicles the presentation of war art during the first fifty years of the Museum’s existence. Drawing on a selection of photographs from the Museum’s archive this display explores how art has been displayed at each of its three different sites, from initial instillations at Crystal Palace in 1920; the Imperial Institute in South Kensington in 1924 and it to its present location, the former Bethlem Royal Hospital at Lambeth Road, where the Museum has resided since 1936.

Admission free