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Imperial War Museum

Place · Attractions, museums & landmarks · 20 mentions · 1 subreddit · discussed in r/LondonTravel

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Pros

  • If you like war history, the Imperial War Museum is excellent.
  • Personally I don't think 2 hours is long enough at the Imperial War Museum, it's huge.
  • as is the Imperial War Museum.
  • If you liked the Churchill War Rooms, you'll probably enjoy the Imperial War Museum. You can spend a good few hours there, plus it's free
  • if they don't want that narrow focus and they want to look at hardware, see a Spitfire, a V2, the inside of a Lancaster, play with an Enigma machine simulator, see things on display, then IWM has more things to see and do.

Cons

  • If you are flying for a long time I would not recommend a museum on your first day. You will be too tired to really take anything in.

Sentiment

19 positive (95%) · 0 mixed (0%) · 1 negative (5%)

Trust + time weighted score: +90% · raw score 90%

What redditors said (10 of 20)

If you like war history, the Imperial War Museum is excellent.
positive · u/B****n · r/LondonTravel · comment · Aug 23, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Personally I don't think 2 hours is long enough at the Imperial War Museum, it's huge.
positive · u/f****1 · r/LondonTravel · comment · Aug 31, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
as is the Imperial War Museum.
positive · u/F****3 · r/LondonTravel · comment · Aug 27, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
If you liked the Churchill War Rooms, you'll probably enjoy the Imperial War Museum. You can spend a good few hours there, plus it's free
positive · u/f****1 · r/LondonTravel · comment · Aug 15, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
if they don't want that narrow focus and they want to look at hardware, see a Spitfire, a V2, the inside of a Lancaster, play with an Enigma machine simulator, see things on display, then IWM has more things to see and do.
positive · u/k****s · r/LondonTravel · comment · Jul 27, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
if you want to see stuff Imperial War Museum is better.
positive · u/p****4 · r/LondonTravel · comment · Jul 27, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
IWM. It’s free! I enjoyed my time there a lot. My partner and I were in there for hours.
positive · u/k****u · r/LondonTravel · comment · Jul 27, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Imperial War museum is great too now that it is remodeled. It has nothing on the US WW2 museum in New Orleans, but it’s very good.
positive · u/R****5 · r/LondonTravel · comment · Jul 27, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
They’re both excellent
positive · u/g****7 · r/LondonTravel · comment · Jul 27, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
The Imperial War museum has a wider scope. And also covers the First World War and cold wars. So it gives some context to the preceding events and consequences.
positive · u/t****y · r/LondonTravel · comment · Jul 27, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗

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