Their Past Your Future > IWM and Their Past Your Future

The Their Past Your Future programme (TPYF) at the Imperial War Museum (2004-2010) has now closed. This website is an archive of the project’s website serving as a record of activities throughout its lifetime, and will not be updated beyond January 2010. If you have any questions regarding the TPYF programme please contact the Imperial War Museum through info@iwm.org.uk quoting "Their Past You Future" in the subject heading.

To access the new TPYF/IWM website for teachers, featuring a range of exciting teaching ideas, resources and source material to explore the impact of conflict from the First World War to today, please go to www.theirpast-yourfuture.org.uk.

The Imperial War Museum is the museum of everyone’s story: the history of modern war and people’s experience of war and wartime life in Britain and the Commonwealth, from 1914 to the present day. It is an internationally renowned educational and historical institution responsible for archives, collections and sites of outstanding national importance. The IWM is proud to be a lead partner in the award-winning Their Past Your Future education programme, which has been inspiring intergenerational learning about the impact of conflict on people and places across the UK since 2004.

Along with managing the Their Past Your Future programme, the Museum has five branches: Imperial War Museum London which houses the award-winning Holocaust Exhibition; the Second World War cruiser HMS Belfast; the Churchill War Rooms, housed in Churchill’s secret headquarters below Whitehall; Imperial War Museum Duxford, a world-renowned aviation and heritage complex, and Imperial War Museum North, one of the most talked-about new museums in the UK.

The Big Lottery Fund generously supports Their Past Your Future, but the Imperial War Museum is a charity and relies on generous donations from individuals, companies and trusts and foundations to support our work.

Your support is valued and needed now more than ever to:

extend and preserve the range of our collections
continue our inspiring education and interpretation programmes
achieve our vision to be the World’s premier museum of modern conflict.

As a supporter of the Imperial War Museum, you will help us to inspire learning and encourage debate through our dynamic programme of educational activities and the care, conservation, and exhibition of our phenomenal collections. We are committed to achieving our future vision and we actively seek funding to support our initiatives. All donations are appreciated, however big or small. If you would like to donate to the Imperial War Museum, you can do so immediately by clicking here.

Their Past Your Future is a UK-wide education project led by a partnership of the Imperial War Museum, Museums, Libraries and Archives England, National Library of Wales, Northern Ireland Museum Council and Scottish Museums Council, supported by the Big Lottery Fund. The project aims to increase young people’s understanding and appreciation of history, national identity and civic participation/responsibility through learning programmes engaging with veterans of conflict, and with primary sources from UK museums, libraries and archives. The project was established in 2004 as part of a UK-wide commemorative programme of funding, events and education projects for the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War but now extends its remit to exploring the impact of all conflict since the First World War.

Further information about the Museum can be found at www.iwm.org.uk

If you would like to donate to the Imperial War Museum, you can do so immediately by clicking here.

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