At the end of the Second World War, inhabitants of the Cabinet War Rooms abandoned this vast underground space and left all equipment and everyday objects behind. The museum attempts to accentuate the notion of the space being frozen in time. Whilst sounds of footsteps, typewriters, sirens and sometimes voices play, the wax works remain paused. When the voices are heard and the waxwork is visible it somehow doesn't work, it's not believable. But when the figures are absent it seems more poignant - therefore allowing the viewer's imagination to add to the scene is perhaps more powerful. Sounds of the typewriters are also unsettling, as an indirect suggestion of human presence.
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