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Ruined brick building with wildflowers in the foreground, from wartime London art

Imperial War Museum · Lambeth

Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art

Now showing20 March 2026 – 1 November 2026·Free

As bombs fell on 1940s London, artists responded. Over 45 paintings and drawings, with photographs, film and oral histories, capture a city both familiar and strange.