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| Nurse's outfit, located near many other uniforms worn by women during the war |
Once we got inside, we decided to follow the museum
chronologically and start with the World War I exhibit. While I’m not as
interested in World War I as I am WWII, but it was still fairly interesting.
Much of it was about war, but there was a section covering what roles women and
children played, which is more aligned with my interests. Interestingly, there
was a section of the large exhibit that was meant to give visitors a feeling of
what it was like to be in the trenches. You walked through an small area with
winding trench tunnels, with speakers and lighting recreating the atmospheric
conditions that soldiers experienced.
After we finished going through the exhibit, we headed
upstairs to World War Two. I sped through the main exhibit, wanting to see the
area that talked about the home front. While I really wish I had been able to
see the recreated 1940s house that used to be in the museum, the exhibit that
they have now was still pretty interesting. Instead of focusing on general
experiences, it followed one family through the war. There was a miniature
recreation of the family’s house, as well as a digital display that let you
zoom in and get more details. Farther in, there were full-scale reproductions
of various rooms in the family’s house, including the sitting room and kitchen.
Scattered around were documents that families such as theirs would have had, as
well as other household items (such as sewing kits and knitting bags). Kim and
Veronica also pointed something out to me that I was too excited to notice at
first – there were large fashion drawings on the walls! At the end of the
exhibit was an example air raid shelter, similar to the one that the family
would have had in their yard.
We quickly looked through a few more exhibits in the museum
before hitting the gift shops and heading for the Churchill War Rooms.
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| Backyard Anderson shelter |
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| WVS uniform |
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