Everything about The Imperial War Museum North totally explained
The
Imperial War Museum North is a war museum at The Quays, Trafford Wharf,
Trafford Park,
Greater Manchester M17 1TZ,
England. Opened on
5 July 2002, it's one of five branches of the
Imperial War Museum, and the first outside the southeast of England. The building is an example of
Deconstructivist Architecture, designed by world-renowned architect
Daniel Libeskind. Construction cost £28 million, and was carried out by Sir
Robert McAlpine, with engineering by
Arup. The building has a highly complex geometry with sloping floors and ceilings and few perpendicular surfaces, designed to induce disorientation reminiscent of that caused by war. The large tower is known as the air shard, and has a viewing/observation platform at the top, accessed by a lift, with a good view of
The Lowry and
Salford Quays.
The museum features an exhibit called
The Big Picture; once an hour, the lights in the main exhibition hall are lowered, photographs and quotations from scenes of war are projected onto all of the walls, and recordings of events echo around the hall. This exhibit enhances the unnerving feeling the museum is designed to create.
Admission is free and the museum is open between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm (10:00 am and 5:00 pm between November and February) daily.
The museum won the 2003
British Construction Industry Building Award, and the title of Large Visitor Attraction of the Year at the 2006 Manchester Tourism Awards.
Architectural concept
Libeskinds' concept for the museum was a globe, shattered by conflict and then reassembled on the site. The building is made up of three aluminium-clad shards, representing the three arenas of war: earth, air and water.
Image:ImperialWarMuseumNorth01.jpg|The east face of the museum, highlighting the aluminium cladding
Image:IWMN canal entrance.JPG|Canal entrance
Image:IWMN interior air shard.JPG|Interior looking up into the air shard tower
Image:IWMN detail.JPG|Close-up detail of aluminium panel detailing
Image:IWMN cafe.JPG|Water shard cafe
Image:IWMN the big picture.JPG|The big picture
Image:LibeskindSpaceFrameTower.jpg|The space frame interior of the air shard tower
Image:ImperialWarMuseumNorth02.jpg|The main entrance, showing the air shard tower.
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