Imperial War Museum North
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When Daniel Libeskind, the award-winning Polish-American architect behind Berlin’s Holocaust Museum, designed the first branch of the museum outside the South East he smashed a glass globe and set about creating a structure from the shards ’to represent the world shattered by conflict’. From the sharp lines and trigger-shaped windows on the outside to the sloping floors and red strip lights slashed into the ceiling on the inside, the museum cleverly threatens and disorientates visitors.
There are the usual guns, tanks and planes but the hardware is offset by personal exhibits -diaries, letters, tape recordings, films projected on to the walls and the floor, clothes, toys, food - that illustrate the social effects of war. Don’t leave without climbing to the top of the ’air shard’ and opening the pill-box-style steel hatches in the walls to look back at the city and the Pennines beyond.
Trafford Wharf Rd , Manchester, UK
Contact tel: +44 (0) 161 836 4000
Cost adult ticket: Free, child ticket: Free
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