They will house around 500 works, showcasing some of the IWM’s vast film and photography collections, which include over 23,000 hours of footage and more than 12 million photographs, alongside works by artists including Henry Moore, Paul Nash and Anna Airy, Olive Mudie-Cooke, Eric Ravilious, Norah Neilson-Gray and Stanley Spencer, alongside the photography of Cecil Beaton, Olive Edis and Bill Brandt.
Thematically organised with sections on propaganda, witness and evidence, mind and body, anticipation and anxiety and more, it interrogates the image as a reminder, a warning, an illumination, a protest against or a weapon of war.
