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From War to Windrush is a new exhibition that tells the personal stories of West Indian people during the First and Second World Wars. The exhibition runs until 29 March 2009. Click here for more information and for details of special events.

Exhibitions

For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
17th April 2008 to 1st March 2009
To celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth, Imperial War Museum London is producing the first major exhibition devoted to the life and work of the man who created the world’s most famous secret agent, James Bond.

From War to Windrush
13th June 2008 to 29th March 2009
To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush in Britain in 1948, this exhibition will tell the personal stories of the involvement of Black men and women from the West Indies and Britain in the First and Second World Wars.

Breakthrough
4th March 2008 to 31st December 2008
A selection from the Imperial War Museum's collection of British Art from the twentieth century

Displaced
31st May 2008 to 7th September 2008
The work of Kurdish contemporary artist Osman Ahmed

War Artists in the Middle East
8th September 2007 to 25th August 2008
A fascinating display of work by British artists who have documented conflict in the Middle East from the First World War to recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Children's War
18th March 2005 to 1st January 2010
A major exhibition looking at the home front in Britain through the eyes of children.

The Holocaust Exhibition
This permanent exhibition uses historical material to tell the story of the Nazis' persecution of the Jews and other groups before and during the Second World War. Photographs, documents, newspapers, artefacts, posters and film offer stark evidence of persecution and slaughter, collaboration and resistance.