As I mentioned earlier, our curriculum incorporates field trips around London at least once a week. The field trips are great because they're a chance to see museums and other exhibits that we would want to go to anyway. While most field trips are for Natural Science, there are a couple for our British Culture & Identity class. Our first one was to the Churchill Cabinet War Rooms. These are a series of underground rooms that Churchill and members of his administration lived in during WWII. For the most part, they have been preserved almost exactly as they were. I though the exhibit was really interesting and it was pretty incredible to see history from that perspective. On the other hand it brought a WWII and war in general to a tangible level that I found hard to get excited about. As I walked through and saw maps of strategy as well as death toll charts, my fascination with the exhibit shifted more toward sentiments of sadness. Of course all the rooms were interesting, worth seeing, and worth preserving. However I think a lot of visitors get caught up in the glorification and excitement (perhaps by the influence of Hollywood) of it all, and forget what a tragedy the very existence of war is. Most eerie was the sketch of Hitler drawn over his territory on a giant map (shown below, a bit blurry)
Entrance
Strategy Map
Churchill sat in the centered chair behind the red box
The man below is my professor Dr. Weight. He was wearing a khaki pinstripe blazer, a straw fedora, and Miu Miu sunglasses.
