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The Imperial War Museum was founded on 5 of March 1917, when the war cabinet approved a proposal by Sir Alfred Mond MP for the creation of a national war museum. The Imperial War Museum holds around 7500 collections of personal letters from the first world war in there archives.
The Museum was oppened the Crystal Palace by king Gerge v on 9 1920. From 1924 to 1935 it was housed in two galleries adjoining the former Imperial insi
Imperial War Museum
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