As the lights fade down, giant screens and powerful surround sound immerse you in the heart of the action, creating a complete sensory experience which is totally involving, and often very moving.

The award-winning Big Picture Show is a 360° audio-visual experience and a unique way for visitors to access the Museum’s world-renowned collections of photography, art and sound.

Continually changing images are projected onto the gallery walls, floor and visitors themselves creating a total, ‘immersive’ environment. The images are accompanied by music, sounds and reminiscences from the oral history archives, to create unforgettable shows.

The Big Picture Shows have been conceived as experiences that will inspire debate and discussion. There are three versions of the show, The War at Home, Children and War and Weapons of War, each of which feature the thoughts, voices and experiences of those involved in or effected by major conflict.

The three shows:

The War at Home This new show looks at the experience of people at home who lived through the Second World War and aims to get across the resilience of the human spirit in the most difficult of times.

Children and War Using the Children and War Big Picture Show, we explore a variety of citizenship issues. Children's perspectives of the Second World War - Home Front in Britain and Germany are explored and then brought up to date with children's experiences of conflict through the century, up to the present day. The show is made up of photographs, art and oral testimony. The session will consist of a show and discussion.

Weapons of War Weapons and War show shows how people have manufactured, used, experienced or feared weapons of war - in the last century and this.

Show Running Times:

11.00 Children & War (15 minutes)
12.00 The War at Home (12 minutes)
13.00 Weapons of War (19 minutes)
14.00 Children & War
15.00 The War at Home
16.00 Weapons of War
17.00 Children & War

“I was moved to tears when I saw the show. Past generations spoke to me.”  Visitor 

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