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Your AI tour guide for IWM London

Photograph a work in IWM London and Lensmark tells you who made it, when, and why it matters, with every fact linked to its source.

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IWM London

London, United Kingdom

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Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

Illustrative photo demo

Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your IWM London walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

Image in the demo: The Menin Road, Paul Nash, June 1918 to February 1919. Paul Nash, Source credit: Imperial War Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Source file; public-domain notice. Cropped and resized. The other collection images are landmarks from the standard Lensmark demo.

What the IWM London collection covers

IWM London explores conflict through paintings, photographs, film and objects. Its Lambeth Road home occupies part of the former Bethlem Royal Hospital. History

The museum was established in 1917 to record the First World War as people experienced it. The London branch brings art, film and photography together in galleries dedicated to war and conflict.

Its collection strengths include British war art from the First World War to the present, conflict photography and film, and posters, prints, and works on paper.

  • Gassed

    John Singer Sargent

    Date
    1919

    Sargent shows soldiers blinded by gas being led toward a dressing station. IWM records the painting as ART 1460.

    Read the museum record

  • The Menin Road

    Paul Nash

    Date
    June 1918 to February 1919

    Nash paints a battlefield of flooded trenches and shattered trees. The work was commissioned for a Hall of Remembrance that was never built.

    Read the museum record

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

IWM's 2020 published guidance allows personal, noncommercial photography and filming in museum galleries without disturbing other visitors, with no flash or tripods and no photography where third-party rights or contracts prohibit it. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. IWM London photography policy: 2020 guidance

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