New experiences, exhibitions and facilities will help to shape future

OVER the next 10 years, IWM Duxford will be transformed, with new experiences, exhibitions and facilities.

This will create a more welcoming experience, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in a journey through the site’s history and the stories of the men and women who lived and worked there.

To tell these fascinating and engaging stories, IWM Duxford’s exhibition spaces will be transformed. They will show how war drives innovation and developments in science and technology.

They will also show how war changes lives by taking visitors on a journey through the objects, vehicles and aircraft on display and the stories of the people who designed, built, flew, drove and repaired them.

To help tell a more coherent story for visitors, the Land Warfare Hall will close permanently.

The Land Warfare Hall no longer meets the environmental conditions required to keep IWM’s collections safe for future generations of visitors, and its closure will allow for collections to be integrated into new, permanent spaces in the museum. They will sit alongside other historic objects, aircraft and vehicles, while also ensuring that they are located in the best possible conditions.

Transforming IWM Duxford will also enable investment in new state-of-the-art collections facilities, safeguarding IWM’s ability to conserve and collect for decades to come.

At the west end of the site, where the Land Warfare Hall currently stands, a new, energy-efficient ent conservation engineering centre will be built, The IWM Lab.

The IWM Lab will create appropriate, long-term conditionscondition to care for IWM’s collection of large objects.

TheT conservationco engineering centre will provide specialist technical training and apprenticeships, developing the skills needed to conserve IWM’s historichist collections. The IWMIWMLabLab will also provide a sense of the scale and diversity

pof IWM’s collections through public viewing spaces and experiences, access to researchers to explore IWM’s large object collection, as well as the opportunity for direct engagement with conservators through guided tours and open days.

The working airfield, with more than 100 years of flying history, will remain the heart of IWM Duxford’s position as the finest and bestpreserved example of a Second World War fighter base in Britain.

Through Transforming IWM Duxford, the rich history of the airfield’s flying activities will be protected and preserved for generations to come.

The working airfield... will remain as the finest example of a Second World War fighter base in Britain.