Imperial War Museum

British Military Museum
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The Imperial War Museum Building was really something special, at least to me. If you look closely at this photo you can see that at the time of our visit it was under restoration, scaffolding surrounded the exterior of the dome. We had a ham and cheese roll from the little cafe just outside the museum, the gardens were well maintained and the roses that were in bloom were beautiful. It wasn't until we approached and were virtually on the steps of the building that we noticed that the entire building was under restoration, the outside of the building was clothed in scaffolding and shade cloth, not just ordinary shade cloth, shade cloth that had been painted with the features of the buildings exterior - AMAZING and we hadn't even entered yet.