We have over 1.7 million object records online, and we are adding to this all the time. Our records are never finished. Sometimes we discover new information that changes what we know about an object, ...

Walk the top-secret corridors and glimpse what life would have been like during the tense days and nights of the Second World War. Join historians Allen Packwood and Kevin Ruane and explore Winston ...

See what's happening at IWM Duxford from family activities in school holidays, flying displays and air shows, historic tours and exciting events.

Wednesday 27 December to Sunday 23 February 2025. IWM Duxford’s winter spotlight exhibition tells the story of the aircraft and aircrew who fought in the Battles of France and Britain over the summer ...

Britain invaded Eastern Africa in multiple stages in the last years of the nineteenth-century. They conquered many different peoples and destroyed traditional societies which had existed for centuries ...

On the 9th of January 1916, the last remaining Allied troops on the Gallipoli peninsula were evacuated. Despite catastrophic predictions, the withdrawal went off without a hitch and the entire force ...

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This historic site offers a unique insight into conflict and over a century of aviation. See aircraft take to the skies from the airfield that Spitfires first flew. School groups can choose to take ...

The Research Room is open five days a week. On Tuesdays to Fridays, we have 15 spaces for individual researchers to view up to 10 items each per day. Mondays are reserved for appointments to view ...

If you want to understand the broader context of Masters of the Air, there is no better place to start than the American Air Museum at IWM Duxford. - Kirk Saduski, executive producer of Masters of the ...

Since its foundation in 1917 IWM has been building its collections in order to illustrate and record all aspects of conflict in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We want our collections to ...