Reviews

(August 2019 - Secondary - Post No: 15333 )

An outstanding experience. Welcomed by a historian, who was very knowledgeable and friendly. The First World War exhibit was exceptionally moving. (July 2019 - Secondary - Post No: 15115 )

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(June 2019 - Secondary - Post No: 13568 )

Museum was fab said one of the pupil (June 2019 - Secondary - Post No: 13084 )

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Great volunteers who gave us brilliant talks. (March 2019 - Primary - Post No: 10724 )

Lots of information and the children really enjoyed it. The distance was a problem for us as we did not get as much time as we wanted but the venue and information was excellent. (March 2019 - Primary - Post No: 10161 )

Lots of excellent exhibitions and galleries to explore (March 2019 - Secondary - Post No: 10031 )

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(March 2019 - Secondary - Post No: 9874 )

Do need to use a worksheet for focus. (February 2019 - Primary - Post No: 9801 )

(February 2019 - Primary - Post No: 9469 )

(January 2019 - Primary - Post No: 9129 )

Brilliant World War 1 exhibit. Well-presented selection of artefacts, maps, videos, display material. It gets a bit crowded sometimes, but it's also a very popular place. (January 2019 - Secondary - Post No: 8774 )

(December 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 8349 )

(November 2018 - Primary - Post No: 8054 )

Fantastic artefacts and resources. Perhaps more interactive exhibits? (November 2018 - Primary - Post No: 7946 )

Excellent exhibitions and volunteers around to provide further information for children. Really helpful staff who gave lots of information on my pre-visit. Had to queue outside (by school entrance) waiting for other classes, from other schools to go inside. Lots of school, so had to wait around 15 mins which was not great. (November 2018 - Primary - Post No: 7806 )

The staff organising the children's belongings were disorganised and rude. The activity that we had paid for was not of a good standard and the documentaries that were made were unavailable for download afterwards as promised. (November 2018 - Primary - Post No: 7804 )

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(November 2018 - Primary - Post No: 7492 )

Excellent provision with telephones to guide students to key sites (November 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 7464 )

Good, but you have to direct students carefully to what you wan them to see. (October 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 7250 )

Hard to do justice to all the exhibits and learning experiences available in such a short space of time, but what we did was very worthwhile and broadened the children's understanding of conflict. (October 2018 - Primary - Post No: 7058 )

(October 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 6711 )

(October 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 6709 )

I visited the IWM London with a group of Year 10 pupils. I thought the Holocaust exhibit was good, except that we were pressed for time and needed to leave early in light of catching a train. Some staff were not happy with this and became quite terse which I felt was unnecessary and rude. When we finished the exhibit, there was no member of staff to greet us or direct us to collect our bags. I had to ask a volunteer and then someone at the front desk to contact the member of staff who took in our bags. Eventually the staff member was tracked down and we were allowed to collect our bags and leave. I did notice that staff were extremely busy, but felt they could have been a bit more friendlier. This experience has put me off from rebooking a trip. (October 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 6611 )

It was a large open plan museum and the staff were particularly accommodating. The staff led two talks despite only booking self-led tours. (October 2018 - Primary - Post No: 6602 )

Fabulous day, incredible place full of fascinating artefacts and stories behind them. The museum itself hasn't lost a star - it was more about the organisation of admitting school groups.Very disappointed to get there at our allotted time, only to be kept waiting for well over an hour to be let in. Very little understanding of how this would impact on remainder of the day and the moods of the children. Once in the exhibitions were fabulous - the only slight let down was the lack of the "trench experience" and that our students were too young to go into the Holocaust exhibition as part of a school group, but can if they're with parents. (September 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 6492 )

Lots of space for pupils to wander safely and take in information. Short tour given at the start. (September 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 6419 )

Great Museum with a lot of history to share. very accessible for all. (September 2018 - Primary - Post No: 6178 )

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(July 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 5654 )

Very informative and friendly staff. They knew a lot about topic and their sessions were planned and developed students' understanding and knowledge of the Holocaust (July 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 5573 )

(July 2018 - Primary - Post No: 5006 )

Great exhibition, easy to deal with and responsive staff. (July 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 4953 )

Staff were very helpful. Pupils thoroughly enjoyed their experience. There were lots of interactive activities to engage the pupils. (June 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 4713 )

(June 2018 - Primary - Post No: 4272 )

Always a thought provoking trip- students behaved excellent. (June 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 3741 )

Always very impressed with the Holocaust exhibit that we visit here. It is a valuable part of our curriculum. (May 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 3591 )

It would be nice to be able to book further in advance than they allow. It can become very busy with school children and the lunch room can be chaos. We couldn't find access to any educational booklets etc so had to make up our own. Overall a very worthwhile trip. (May 2018 - Primary - Post No: 3098 )

(May 2018 - Primary - Post No: 3053 )

The tour around the houses of parliament was very good and suitable for sixth form history pupils. The Imperial War museum was also very impressive and interesting, again for our history pupils. (April 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 2345 )

(March 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 2126 )

Despite lateness as a result of bad traffic in London, we had a very successful day at the Imperial War Museum, who did all that they could to ensure we had a good trip! (March 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 2059 )

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(March 2018 - Primary - Post No: 1491 )

Holocaust Audio guides excellent and plenty for pupils to engage with in several galleries (February 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 1265 )

Brilliantly stimulating venue. Students loved it. (February 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 1263 )

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(January 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 539 )

Teaching session a bit long for Y9 but audio guides and exhibition excellent, engaging, informative and moving. (January 2018 - Secondary - Post No: 421 )

(December 2017 - Secondary - Post No: 378 )

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(December 2017 - Primary - Post No: 137 )