{"id":2092,"date":"2014-08-30T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2014-08-30T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T16:08:28","slug":"imperial-war-museum-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2092","title":{"rendered":"Imperial War Museum, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IWM_8317.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IWM_8317.jpg\" alt=\"Museum front with guns\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2127\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IWM_8317.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IWM_8317-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Imperial War Museum was founded to commemorate the First World War. By 1936 it was housed in the former central building of the Bethlem Hospital.<br \/>\nAfter WWII the museum&#8217;s scope was enlarged to commemorate WWII and Commonwealth conflicts. There have been several phases of redevelopment of the Southwark building, the latest being completed in mid-2014 and incorporating a new WWI gallery for the centenary.<br \/>\nThere are now several outposts of the IWM in various parts of the country.<br \/>\nToday the main features of IWM London are the WWI galleries, the central display of large exhibits, the Holocaust exhibition, medal collection, and a series of conflict galleries representing the WWII desert campaigns, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, etc.<\/p>\n<p>IWM London is best reached by public transport. There are two Underground stations within walking distance.<\/p>\n<p>Visit date 9 Aug 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Imperial War Museum was founded to commemorate the First World War. By 1936 it was housed in the former central building of the Bethlem Hospital. After WWII the museum&#8217;s scope was enlarged to commemorate WWII and Commonwealth conflicts. There have been several phases of redevelopment of the Southwark building, the latest being completed in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imperial War Museum, London&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}