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Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms

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Discover the stories of the people who walked the maze of corridors as London was being bombed above them. See where Churchill and his War Cabinet met, sometimes late into the night, and look through the lens of history into the Map Room, where the books and charts have remained exactly where they were left on the day the lights were switched off in 1945. In the Churchill Museum, explore the man behind the image as you discover more about the influences and pressures that shaped Churchill's life...

Winston Churchill directed the troops during World War II from a small warren of underground rooms, which are now open to the public. Visitors to the Cabinet War Rooms - now called the Churchill War Rooms - can see the area just as it would have been during the cigar-smoking prime minister's time. Every piece of furniture and fitting was left in situ, down to the maps with coloured pins and the Transatlantic Phone Room, which had a direct hotline to FDR. The adjacent Churchill Museum , which opened...

A different view of the Prime Minister's bedroom in the Cabinet War Rooms basement, showing the desk from which Churchill made his wartime broadcasts in 1940-1941.

In August 1939, the Cabinet War Rooms became operational in a former government storage basement, safe from the ferocious air attacks on London. The thirty rooms of this refuge became the secret nerve centre of Britain's war effort. It was where the most senior figures of the government and its armed forces (including Churchill) worked and slept, making decisions crucial to the survival of the nation.

Shortly after becoming the British Prime Minister in 1940, Winston Churchill visited the Cabinet War Rooms to see for himself what preparations had been made to allow him and his War Cabinet to continue working throughout the expected German air raids on London. It was there, in the underground Cabinet Room, that the great man announced 'This is the room from which I will direct the war'.