Talk:Imperial War Museum/Archive 1

Archive 1

Guns

From which side are the guns seen - in other words, which is the right one and which is the left one? --Palnatoke 16:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Left and right as used in the article refer to the guns as seen by someone standing behind them. The IWM website says that the tampion badge of the right-hand gun depicts a charging knight, symbolising HMS Resolution. This picture shows the muzzles of the guns from the front allowing the badges to be seen. The knight is on the left-hand gun as seen from the front, or the right-hand one as seen from behind. Dr pda 21:41, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Tube stations

How can there be four nearest underground stations?

Why is there only pictures of non-British equipment in this article?

Nothing stopping you from adding British equipment pics. Chensiyuan 06:02, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

In answer to why there are four nearest underground stations: that is what the musuem says on its own website. I guess which one is nearest depends on which line you are using and the direction you are coming from. Molybdomancer 11:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, not particularly close to any of the stations, common south of the river. Paulbrock (talk) 22:20, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

It is in fact equidistant from Elephant and Castle and Lambeth North stations. 79.75.16.86 (talk) 06:48, 21 March 2009 (UTC) Tony S

In 1939, the Museum began including displays relating to the Second World War

excuse me ? Rcbutcher (talk) 13:33, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Reversion by User: Chensiyuan

Why did you revert my edit?IxK85 (talk) 12:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Why not? It seems more like a test edit. Chensiyuan (talk) 13:14, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Lead

Going to rework the lead a bit because at present it's rather inelegant and the Forgotten Voices stuff isn't relevant to the work of the museum as a whole. IxK85 (talk) 13:10, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

• Have changed the first sentence and rephrased the opening paragraph, and reordered the lead section. I propose to excise the 'Forgotten Voices' section temporarily and make it the first in a series of sections about the Museum's collections. IxK85 (talk) 22:22, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

• • Have added sections about the Sound, Film and Documents archives, and provided links to other wiki pages and will add other sections later. IxK85 (talk) 23:09, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Sources tag

Going to remove the sources tag as the article now contains third-party references. IxK85 (talk) 13:56, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

External links

Suggestions for the inclusion of external links to VADS (the Visual Arts Data Service). VADS provides online access to a large number of images from the Imperial War Museum's collections, which are not available online elsewhere. The images are copyright cleared and free for use in UK education and personal research. VADS is hosted by the University for the Creative Arts. This includes over 7000 images from the museum's poster collection, digitised and catalogued as part of a project in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
See:
Imperial War Museum Posters of Conflict
As well as:
Imperial War Museum Concise Art Collection
Imperial War Museum Spanish Civil War Poster Collection Uk-art-online (talk) 11:05, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to restore these links, with a note from the Art section, as I think they may be useful. IxK85 (talk) 16:09, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Importance scale

In line with Wikipedia:WikiProject_Museums/Assessment I have raised the rating of this from Low to Mid.IxK85 (talk) 20:39, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Southwark NOT Lambeth

I have edited the references to the principal museum being in 'Lambeth', the entire site is within the borders of the London Borough of Southwark. Before that it was in the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark and before that it was in the civil parish of St George's, Southwark. The area forms part of the City of London's borough of Southwark King's Manor, Southwark. The park is in fact the last remaining part of St George's Fields. This is a very common confusion brought about by the fact that Lambeth North station was for many years promoted as the closest station, the fact that the Lambeth borough border runs along the western edge of the park and that the address is 'Lambeth Road' which divides between the two boroughs at the junction of Kennington Road and also that travelling from Westminster one crosses the corner of Lambeth Borough and one is aware that County Hall and Waterloo Station are in Lambeth and one assumes that the IWM a little beyond must therefore be so. 79.75.16.86 (talk) 06:48, 21 March 2009 (UTC) Tony S