![]() Secondly, unlike many tank museums (Musee des Bindes, Saumur Arsenalen, Sweden) where space is at a premium, the IWM have taken the trouble to put most of their vehicles in quite detailed dioramas, conveying a sense of their use and, I suppose, their natural habitat!Īs in many military museums the exhibits are displayed chronologically, so you start in the left hand hall with WW1 vehicles and go clockwise around the exhibition floor, ending back at the entrance with a British Challenger Main Battle Tank.īack outside there are some contemporary exhibits – a British Armoured Personnel Carrier with a Soviet howitzer – and very interesting, a section of Whale bridging from the famous Mulberry Harbour used to unload supplies onto the beaches at Normandy in 1943 when the assault was complete. ![]() The gallery extends down the middle of the building and it means that ‘casual’ visitors can walk along the gallery and get a good view down onto all the exhbits without having to get down among them – freeing up the pathways for enthusiasts like me who want to get close up!
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