Churchill Museum and the Cabinet War Rooms, St. James's, London

Amazing place, I’ve learned so many things about the war and Churchill, all the staff is so friendly and professional!

really insighful and interesting :D

I was very encouraged to find this site. I wanted to thank you for this special read. I definitely savored every little bit of it.

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Nice place you can ; have wae rooms,and many more things

This is amust if visiting London or somewhere to go....Fantatsic insite to Winstn Churchil and then also to find out stuff you didn't even know is fantastic :)

A really interesting insight in to an important part of history. Some good exibhits and a really good atmosphere. Not the cheapest of things todo at nearly £15 for an adult, but it's indipendantly funded so fair enough for central London.

If you love modern history and the world war periods then this place will be right up your alley. A great experience to learn alot about churchill and how life was 60 years ago. A great day out if nt a little expenseive but i reckon its worth every penny.

This is a fascinating experience and surprisingly good. Churchill’s Cabinet Rooms are really interesting-there is some much to glean, learn and understand that it does justify the entrance cost. Although you can purchase the tickets on 241 via some rail card offers. I found this out when I checked train times on the internet. The story of Churchill and his decision making firmness is famous throughout the world but to see the place where he arrived at many of those decisions is truly enlightening.

A truly great museum. I’m a big Churchill fan, and I was overjoyed to go see the War cabinets.

It is truly unique to be able to walk the same halls the staff walked back during WWII, and to see most rooms as they were left on the day the war ended, when the location was sealed.

There is also a large exhibition about churchill himself, including a pair of his favoured overalls. It was both informational and amusing. I’d recommend reserving 2 hours for the Churchill exhibit alone if you really want to see/read everything.

Entrance is a steep £13, but if you’re coming into London using South West Trains, you can get a 2-for-1 voucher. (I forgot to use it, so don’t know if they’d honour it, but it’s worth a try).

The souvenir shop has some cute booklet reproductions from WWII either with recipes, food vouchers, or about “make do and mend”. Worth a visit to get a gift for any history or period buff.

This is one of my favourite museums in London. A real must for anyone whether you are interested in Churchill or not. The way it is set out is so interesting and the audio tour is great. They have now added the Churcill Museum and this is very interactive and child friendly. I find the whole museum a great place ad often recommend to visiting friends and family.

Did you know that Winston Churchill was half American? I didn’t, until my visit to the Cabinet War Rooms. The audio tour was fascinating, mixing real radio broadcasts with historical reenactments and walking the same halls that Churchill did 65 years ago was downright chilling.

Whether you’re a World War II buff or not I highly recommend checking out the Cabinet War Rooms while visiting London to learn about this important chapter in our history.

If you are a War buff then you have to see this place. Some of the greatest battle plans were thought up in this place. Just knowing that the great Winston Churchill used this as his headquarters during WWII is fascinating.

This is a fascinating insight into the last world war. The entrance which is just off Whitehall can be easily missed, so follow the signs.An audio guide means you can wander at leisure and savour the atmosphere. Well worth a visit especially for children to learn about our recent history.

I really didn’t think I would enjoy this as much as I did and I put off a visit to this on my first visit to London as the entrance fee is £11.

This is situated in the cabinet bunkers used during world war 2.
You are given an earpiece which you are given in your chosen language and it gives you a guided tour. This works so much better than it sounds because you key in on a keypad you are given where abouts in the cabinet rooms you are and it gives information only when you want it.

The Cabinet war rooms have been preserved exactly as they were 60 years ago. You get to see the very rooms the war effort was conducted from.

About halfway through the tour is the Museum (although I felt at the time you could easily miss this and carry on with the tour unawares) and you can spend as much time here as during the tour easily.

They have loads of interactive things to do, for example - all of Chrurchills speeches are in audio, plenty of his own personal belongings & coverage of his funeral.

Despite my original reservations I would recommend this to those not even interested in War history.

The Cabinet War Rooms are fascinating; learn what Winston Churchill’s secretary thought about taking dictation from him, and imagine a time when the leaders of Britain expected invasion any day.

The Churchill Museum is excellent but not really organized chronologically but in a much better fashion. We spent 2 1/2 hours there and could have spent much more.
For anyone except children, this should be a valuable and interesting experience.

This trip was given as a 'Joke’ present but it turned out to be a brilliant day out. I wasn’t dragged along screaming & shouting but the shops seemed a long way off !! Centrally situated, easy to find and surrounded by more Visitor Attractions but you won’t have much time left on the same day. There is so much to see in the Museum & War Rooms and the time just flies by.
It wasn’t crowded and the individual, commentary phones were easy to use and allowed you to move on at your own pace. The detail was amazing and the insight into the working environment very thought provoking. The Churchill museum was truly interesting with some really high tech inter reactive equipment. There was information about his whole life, not just the war, with some of interesting personal detail. Educational, informative and fun.
We hadn’t anticipated being there so long so the coffee shop serving cakes & light lunches was really welcome (about 2/3 of the way round ) and we enjoyed real ” doorstep sandwiches ” with sausage & egg. The waiters were friendly & great fun. Having fortified ourselves we carried on to the map rooms where the sheer scale of WW2 becomes all too clear. We left a little quieter than when we arrived.
The tour finishes in the gift shop which has a good range of products, some a little unusual, and at prices to suit everyone. I think we were all a bit sorry it was over, boring it certainly isn’t.
It is well worth the entrance fee, around £12. Do allow longer than you think!! I’m sure you could easily spend a whole day in there. I never did get to the shops.
We parked in Abingdon Street car park just at the end of the palace of Westminster, across Parliament Square. It is much cheaper than some of the others (£10 - 4 hours) and only a few minutes walk.

The Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum may be the most overlooked museum in London, despite its central location. I’ve been twice: once years ago, before the Churchill Museum was added, and then recently. Both parts of the museum are outstanding. The Cabinet War Rooms are left just as they were at the end of WWII, and give a great picture of life in wartime London (well, at least life for those in power and those who worked for them). The Churchill Museum is unbelieveably interesting. Churchill, of course, is a fascinating subject, and this museum does him justice. It is interactive and multi-media, and you won’t be bored for a second. As another reviewer wrote, you can easily lose track of time here! All in all, a fantastic place to visit, and well worth the admission price.

Great place to visit if the weather is bad as its completely underground. Beware though that you can lose complete track of time, become completely engrossed and risk being thrown out at closing time, as we were! Excellent use of original war rooms with correctly dressed mannequins, furniture and sound recordings from the time. A real feel for the lives they lead there during the worst of the war. Museum is everything you ever wanted to know about Winny even including the material of his siren suit!

I think it's prtty hard for someone not to find this sort of thing interesting. Churchill has to be one of the most interesting and intriguing charachters in history, which is why he is so oft quoted, theres so many books about him and why people flock to this place. It covers his whole life, a priveliged but by no means easy life, haunted by what he called the 'dark dog' of his serious depressions, treated as a warmongering pariah in the run up to the war, you don't get an airbrushed view of a glorious leader but a warts and all insight into what made the man tick. The war rooms are incredible, kept precisely as they were from the day they were taken out of usage in 1945, it's a remarkable historical resource. A great experience.

Of all the things to do in London, visiting the Cabinet War Rooms might not come in at the top of your list. However, it makes for a really interesting visit and doesn’t feel as stuffy as a lot of other museums.

The rooms have been preserved exactly as they were in WWII, they were forgotten about for 50 years and then opened to the public fairly recently. I found one of the best things to be the fact that you are given a personal audio guide as you enter, which means you can wander round completely at your own pace, skip anything that doesn’t interest you and here more in depth descriptions of other things that do.

The Churchill Museum is half way through and goes into a lot of detail but is also interesting for those who only want to check out the highlights. I spent a couple of hours here and was really glad I made the effort to do something a bit different. If you’re really interested in the subject though I’m sure you could easily fill a whole morning or afternoon.