Went there for the first time yesterday since the £40 million makeover. What was probably the best museum in London is now shockingly piss poor. They've turned it into a glorified art exhibition. Gone is the great sunlit atrium full of great hardware (Jagdpanther tank, P-51, WWI era double decker, etc) to be replaced by a news corp 4x4 with a bit of damage and a burnt out Iraqi car...The whole place is dingy, dark, full of dead ends and poorly designed.

What's worse, the fantastic basement with the WWI and WWII exhibits is completely gone. Gone is the House, the Blitz experience, the trench...all replaced with a shockingly random collection of stuff, strewn around two floors with little purpose or coherence. The focal point seems to be the two s***ty shops. The whole thing has become a miserable example of what happens when you let 'consultants' and architects loose on what should be left to the historian.

The IWM used to be an absolute institution in which I would happily spend hours. It is now a f***ing awful, dumbed down and 'modernised' pile of crap.

Whoever is responsible should be stuffed head first down the naval guns outside.

Anyone else equally devastated by what they've done to this place?

Edited by Kosowski (10 Apr 2015 6.45pm)

Block B comment of 2011/2012 Season:

"That's better Palace, better...but still fucking shit!"

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Dann to Much, Much to Yong.

I am shocked to read this. I knew a refurbishment was going on but had no idea that this was the result.

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If you want the real deal go to the National Army museum in chelsea just down the road from the hospital, you wont be disappointed

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My mum took my neice and nephew along a couple of days back (11 and 9 respectively) and both thoroughly enjoyed having no interest in history or war at all

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The problem was, the IWM was the real deal. Downstairs was 3 times the size of the Army museum and had far more stuff...and its all gone!

£40 million down the drain and a fantastic museum ruined.

Block B comment of 2011/2012 Season:

"That's better Palace, better...but still fucking shit!"

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Dann to Much, Much to Yong.

I totally agree I was excited when I heard they were revamping, I went soon after they reopened and queued up for ages to get in. I was so disappointed. They have taken so much of what was good out. There ww2 exhibits used to be so good.