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Explore the creation and use of maps during the Second World War. Discover their use through personal stories, photography, and memorabilia. Between 1939 and 1945 over 3 billion maps were produced for the Allied, Soviet and German forces. Used to navigate the jungles of south-east Asia or for devising an escape plan, the maps on display are now mementoes. Maps kept alongside medals and photographs to say ‘I was there.’ You'll find aerial photography, war diaries, and even a fashionable dress made from escape and evasion maps. The exhibition introduces us to a Prisoner of War, an RAF pilot, a Brigadier and an army chaplain through the maps they kept as a memory of their war service.

This room invites you to step inside the artist’s studio: a place for creating, dreaming and thinking, where reality can be reimagined and transformed.Studios come in different shapes and sizes. From boat houses to seaside cottages and purpose-built environments, creative spaces are varied and unique. For many artists, their workspaces have also been dictated by circumstance, often marked by uncertainty and impermanence. The works on display give us a glimpse into the studio and the practical conditions of artmaking. They prompt us to consider how artists make work and how space can interact with and influence their materials and methods of making.

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