Description
Purpose-built to tell the powerful stories of over a century of war, IWM North makes full use of its extraordinary exhibition space to deliver an award-winning immersive experience.
If you are looking for Best Museums and Art Galleries in Manchester , Greater Manchester then you can visit Imperial War Museum North. Imperial War Museum North is one of the places in Manchester Greater Manchester for day out with kids and families. More details can be found on the website for this place.
Features
- Free
- Host birthday parties: Yes
Features
On Site Parking
On Site Cafe
Main Exhibition Space
Running around the walls of the Main Exhibition Space is a Timeline that guides you through key events of twentieth and twenty-first century warfare.
Big Picture Show
Immerse yourself in the award-winning 360-degree cinematic Big Picture Show that brings a broad range of perspectives into poignant focus, reflecting not only on the immediate effects of war, but also on what happens when the guns stop firing. Using surround sound, projected digital moving images and photographs, the Big Picture Show brings to life people’s experiences of war.
Mixing It: The Changing Faces of Wartime Britain
The powerful stories in this small display are based on specially recorded oral histories, presented alongside archive material and new research by the University of Huddersfield in partnership with IWM.
Art at IWM North
There are a variety of artworks and artforms on display at IWM North, including the architecture of the building itself. Many of the pieces are IWM North commissions, created by artists as their own responses to the subject of war. Visit IWM North or take a look at some of the highlights below.
Poppies
The iconic hand-crafted ceramic sculptures have returned to IWM North as a brand-new artwork, Poppies. Re-imagined into a new sculptural form, Poppies, cascade down and pool within the unique architecture of IWM North’s Air Shard, combining the pieces from the 2018 artworks Poppies: Wave and Weeping Window.
Schools
They offer detailed learning sessions which involve you and your students in exploring a particular theme, or time in history.
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