Winston Churchill's Britain At War Experience

Before you go BEWARE. They are so stingy that they won't allow you the web discount voucher price unless you print off one for every single member of your party! How pedantic can you get? It is not cheap and the Imperial War Museum is a far better bet and FREE.

The youngest one enjoyed trying on the gas masks and tin helmets.

The best bit was a reasonable priced meal at Strada restaurant which overlooks Tower Bridge.

The Britain At War Museum (aka Winston Churchill's Britain At War Experience) can be best described as being pathetic. The website claims that the museum features Universal Studio sytle effects, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Their website boasts; "Huddle in the Anderson shelter and hear all the terrifying noises of an air raid overhead" - this is nothing more than a shed in a room with a big speaker hanging overhead; "Window shop along the little shops of Southwark..." - this is a few cabinets set up inside the museum made to look like shop fronts; "Share the excitement and anxiety of the evacuees as they wait to be transported to new homes" - three manikins. Don't be fooled into thinking that this is anything more than a museum, and a poor one at that.

Once you exit the museum you enter the fabled Universal Studios style display. This was totally unbelievable - so pathetic and unreal that it actually made me laugh (some manikins were missing heads, some torsos). This is described as the "unique Bomb Disposal display", it was unique alright.

As a previous reviewer said, take a trip to the Cabinet War Rooms (includes the Churchill Museum) instead. You could also take a 10 minute walk from the Britain At War Museum to HMS Belfast. If you have more time on your hands you could also take a trip to the Imperial War Museum. All of these offer a real insight to Britain at War and are worth every penny of the entry fee. L10 for the Britain At War Museum, L2 more like!