The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in wars involving the Commonwealth of Australia. The memorial includes an extensive national military museum. The Australian War Memorial was opened in 1941, and is widely regarded as one of the most significant memorials of its type in the world.
The Memorial is located in Australia's capital, Canberra. It is the north terminus of the city's ceremonial land axis, which stretches from Parliament House on Capital Hill along a line passing through the summit of the cone-shaped Mount Ainslie to the northeast. No continuous roadway links the two points, but there is a clear line of sight from the front balcony of Parliament House to the War Memorial, and from the front steps of the War Memorial back to Parliament House.
The Australian War Memorial consists of three parts: the Commemorative Area (shrine) including the Hall of Memory with the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier, the Memorial's galleries (museum) and Research Centre (records). The Memorial also has an outdoor Sculpture Garden. The Memorial is currently open daily from 10am until 5pm, except on Christmas Day.
Many people include Anzac Parade as part of the Australian War Memorial because of the Parade's physical design leading up to the War Memorial, but it is maintained separately by the National Capital Authority (NCA)
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The painting Midnight at Menin Gate by Will Longstaff (1927)
View from the south
The Museum of the AWM is a two-storey building with a cross-shaped floor plan, below and around the inner courtyard with the memory area. The building is decorated in the style of Byzantine architecture and features Art Deco decorations throughout. The upper floor is mainly devoted to the First World War (entire west wing, with a focus on the battle of Gallipoli) and the Second World War (entire East wing).
Between the two wings is the Aircraft Hall (aircraft hall), in which some aircraft of the Second World War are exhibited. Also between the wings is the Hall of Valor with an exhibition of almost all the Victoria crosses that have ever been awarded to Australian soldiers. These 60 Ordens are the largest publicly accessible collection of Victorian crosses worldwide. In addition, each bearer of this order is briefly presented. In many cases the Order's relatives donate or donate the Order to the Australian War Memorial, to keep them in safe custody and to keep the memory alive. On the lower floor are a theater, a research area, exhibitions on the conflicts of the colonial period and the post-Second World War, as well as an area for temporary special exhibitions.
The ANZAC Hall is a large cultivation in the south, in which large war equipment is exhibited. These include an Avro Lancaster bomber, a small Japanese submarine, type A, which launched an attack on the Sydney harbor in 1942, and then a dinghy (M14 and M21) from two submerged copies, German type combat aircraft Me 262 and Me 163 as well as a Mark I tank.
On the occasion of the commemoration ceremonies of the First World War, the only preserved specimen of the German A7V tank from the Queensland Museum was transferred to the exhibition in June 2015 (until April 2017).
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