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New Imperial War Museum Director-General, Diane Lees, Takes Up Post on 1 October
Diane Lees, former Director of the V&A’s Museum of Childhood, takes up post as the new Director-General of the Imperial War Museum on 1 October, with overall responsibility for the Museum’s five branches and collections archives.

In Memoriam: Remembering the Great War
To commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice, Imperial War Museum London is mounting a major exhibition that will look at the personal stories of those who lived, fought and died during the First World War both overseas and on the home front.

Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust
Prompted by a number of remarkable recent acquisitions, Unspeakable is the first opportunity to see together the different artistic responses to the Nazi persecution of the Jews of Europe, from the Imperial War Museum’s Art collection.

Lord Ashcroft's Victoria Cross collection - the largest in the world - is to go on public display following his £5 million donation to the Imperial War Museum
The world’s largest collection of Victoria Crosses (VCs), belonging to the Michael A Ashcroft Trust, is to be displayed publicly for the first time in a new gallery at Imperial War Museum London


From War to Windrush
13 June 2008 – 29 March 2009


To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush in Britain in 1948, From War to Windrush, a new special exhibition at Imperial War Museum London, tells the personal stories of West Indian people during the First and Second World Wars.

For Your Eyes Only
Ian Fleming and James Bond
17 April 2008 - 1 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.

2008 Highlights at Imperial War Museum
2008 Highlights at Imperial War Museum