Cabinet War Rooms
London s cabinet war rooms became fully operational just a week before war was declared on 3 rd september 1939.
Cabinet war rooms. Choose from the various language and descriptive audio guide options. The cabinet war rooms are part of the underground bunker complex in london where winston churchill and his government operated during world war two. In the 1930 s realising that there was likely to be a war the government needed to build a bombproof shelter and cabinet war rooms from which to carry on business should there be damage to 10 downing street and whitehall.
You can choose to use your own headphones that will connect to our audio guides via the 3 5 mm standard jack. In 1940 when the blitz bombing incidence occurred the cabinet war room were concealed by spreading a thick layer of the concrete slab over it. See first hand the historic rooms including the map room the cabinet room churchill s bedroom and many other offices and facilities.
The churchill war rooms is a museum in london and one of the five branches of the imperial war museum the museum comprises the cabinet war rooms a historic underground complex that housed a british government command centre throughout the second world war and the churchill museum a biographical museum exploring the life of british statesman winston churchill. Cabinet war rooms facts. In 1984 iwm opened the rooms to the public for the first time and they can be visited today.
In 2005 hm the queen opened the churchill museum which examines the life and work of winston churchill. In 1941 the protection given to the war rooms was increased. Audio guides are included in your admission price and provide an intriguing insight into churchill s cabinet war rooms.
English french german italian spanish. This enabled the british to expand the size of the rooms. Hidden beneath the streets of westminster.