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Imperial War  Museum
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Imperial War Museum in London.
•Imperial War Museum is a British national museum 
organisation  with branches at five locations in England, three 
of which are in London.
 
•The museum was  founded during the  First World War in 
1917 and intended as a record of the war effort and sacrifice 
of Britain and her  Empire .
•Today the museum gives its  mission as "to enable people to 
have an informed understanding of modern war and its 
impact on individuals and society"
•Originally housed in the Crystal  Palace at Sydenham Hill, the 
museum opened to the public in 1920.
•In 1924 the museum moved to space  in the Imperial Institute 
in  South Kensington, and  finally  in 1936 the museum 
acquired a permanent  home which was previously the 
Bethlem  Royal   Hospital in  Southwark .
•The outbreak of the Second World War saw the museum 
expand  both its collections and its  terms  of reference, but the 
post-war  period  saw the museum enter a period of decline.
•The  1960s  saw the museum redevelop its 
Southwark  building , now  referred  to as Imperial War 
Museum London, and which serves as the 
organisation's corporate  headquarters . 
•During the 1970s the museum began to expand onto 
other  sites.
•The first, in 1976, was a historic airfield in 
Cambridgeshire now referred to as Imperial War 
Museum Duxford
 
•In 1978 the Royal Navy cruiser HMS  Belfast  became a 
branch  of the museum, having previously been 
preserved for the  nation  by a private trust .
•In 1984 the Cabinet War  Rooms , an underground