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Although the Imperial War Museum North is in many ways part of the Salford Quays redevelopment, I suspect that User:80.47.26.69 is right that the building is actually in Trafford and the boundary runs up the canal between the IWMN and The Lowry. -- Solipsist 20:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Please can some somebody provide a report and photos of the actual military displays and articles there ! Rcbutcher ( talk) 16:15, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm not a regular Wikipedia user nor do I ever edit articles but I can comment on the IWM (north) - not that I think this comment will last long before someone deletes it. The IWM(N) is bad. Very bad. The building is a classic example of the 'look how clever I am' school of architecture where the practical functionality of the building is suborned to the architects 'vision'. For example, the main staircase has a hand rail that divides the staircase roughly 70/30 at the bottom. As you climb, the stairs narrow and anyone who is to the left of the rail suddenly realises that the rail meets the wall about half way up and he has to go back down and walk up the other side! ( Picture here; http://flickr.com/photos/89921956@N00/2299831459/ )It's impossible to see this from the bottom because the stairs curve left and the rail meets the wall out of sight of the bottom of the stairs. As a museum it fails because it is filled with a great deal of nothing. There's no theme or reason to what is exhibited or, if there is, the building is laid out so badly that it isn't apparent. The first thing you see at the head of the stairs is a Harrier - painted in USMC colours - hanging from the ceiling. As you wander around looking for something of interest you find an old fire engine, a T-34 tank and, god alone knows why, a Trabant car. A few cases display a random selection of weapons and odd personal effects. Admision is free and yet visiting the museum is really bad value for money since it costs a small fortune to park your car. I can heartily recommend visiting any other branch of the IWM - Duxford, for example, is astoundingly good. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.169.0.228 ( talk) 21:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. In the interests of transparency, I am a curator at the IWM. I would like to improve this article as its somewhat thin on the ground at the moment. I will endeavour to abide by WP:V, WP:NOR and WP:NPOV. Comments are welcome. -- IxK85 ( talk) 15:48, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
In the infobox, the postal address is being used as the Museum's location:
The problem is that the Museum is not actually in or part of Manchester, so having that city as the Museum's location is misleading. Trafford Park is an area of the town of Stretford, so surely the Museum's location comes under that town, although the Royal Mail ignores that and uses the Manchester post-town. I think the location in the infobox should state:
This would clearly state where the Museum is, and not some undefined postal area. Or carry on with what the Royal Mail decides and stop using actual places anymore? HLE ( talk) 20:21, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Regarding the recent change to the leading image, I feel the previous image is preferable. For comparison:
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Opinions? -- IxK85 ( talk) 12:46, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
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Although the Imperial War Museum North is in many ways part of the Salford Quays redevelopment, I suspect that User:80.47.26.69 is right that the building is actually in Trafford and the boundary runs up the canal between the IWMN and The Lowry. -- Solipsist 20:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Please can some somebody provide a report and photos of the actual military displays and articles there ! Rcbutcher ( talk) 16:15, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm not a regular Wikipedia user nor do I ever edit articles but I can comment on the IWM (north) - not that I think this comment will last long before someone deletes it. The IWM(N) is bad. Very bad. The building is a classic example of the 'look how clever I am' school of architecture where the practical functionality of the building is suborned to the architects 'vision'. For example, the main staircase has a hand rail that divides the staircase roughly 70/30 at the bottom. As you climb, the stairs narrow and anyone who is to the left of the rail suddenly realises that the rail meets the wall about half way up and he has to go back down and walk up the other side! ( Picture here; http://flickr.com/photos/89921956@N00/2299831459/ )It's impossible to see this from the bottom because the stairs curve left and the rail meets the wall out of sight of the bottom of the stairs. As a museum it fails because it is filled with a great deal of nothing. There's no theme or reason to what is exhibited or, if there is, the building is laid out so badly that it isn't apparent. The first thing you see at the head of the stairs is a Harrier - painted in USMC colours - hanging from the ceiling. As you wander around looking for something of interest you find an old fire engine, a T-34 tank and, god alone knows why, a Trabant car. A few cases display a random selection of weapons and odd personal effects. Admision is free and yet visiting the museum is really bad value for money since it costs a small fortune to park your car. I can heartily recommend visiting any other branch of the IWM - Duxford, for example, is astoundingly good. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.169.0.228 ( talk) 21:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. In the interests of transparency, I am a curator at the IWM. I would like to improve this article as its somewhat thin on the ground at the moment. I will endeavour to abide by WP:V, WP:NOR and WP:NPOV. Comments are welcome. -- IxK85 ( talk) 15:48, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
In the infobox, the postal address is being used as the Museum's location:
The problem is that the Museum is not actually in or part of Manchester, so having that city as the Museum's location is misleading. Trafford Park is an area of the town of Stretford, so surely the Museum's location comes under that town, although the Royal Mail ignores that and uses the Manchester post-town. I think the location in the infobox should state:
This would clearly state where the Museum is, and not some undefined postal area. Or carry on with what the Royal Mail decides and stop using actual places anymore? HLE ( talk) 20:21, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Regarding the recent change to the leading image, I feel the previous image is preferable. For comparison:
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Opinions? -- IxK85 ( talk) 12:46, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
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