This is the first and only museum that costs money that I will be attending. Thankfully I chose well as it was very very good. When WWII and VJ day happened, they did not pack anything, just tidied up a bit and shut off the lights for the first time in six years. Which is exactly how it was later found as the entire bunker was a secret. Along with the War Rooms is a Churchill museum that documents his life. I found it very interesting that he was actually responsible for many great failures and yet others took the blame. Overall he was not a great politician either. Except for WWII he would be nobody of consequence, or even viewed upon in a negative light. The technology in the museum was new to me. They used lasers that when broken activated movies and sound. The speakers were set up so they were really only hearable for those that were directly under them.
On another note, we also visited Wormwood prison. The prisoners are treated so much better and with far more respect that in most U.S. facilities. The prison system (at least this one) is highly dedicated to rehabilitation rather than incarceration, helping prisoners become educated and learn trades to get hired. An interesting point made was that some prisoners are there because they want to be. They make more in prison jobs to send home then they would at local jobs in their home countries. That is disappointing on many levels, both from their abuse of the system and the lack of opportunity and development in their own countries.
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