点评:The experience was comparable to a poorly lit queue at Disneyland in high season. Without a thrilling ride at the end... Far too many people in the narrow corridors. In my view clearly a health and safety issue, in addition to us being unable to see the exhibits properly.
Private tour guides should be banned, their groups block the passages as their clients huddle to hear what is being said rather than use the free audio guides. Additionally our view of the map room, one of the main exhibits, was severely limited by an IWM guide who took a group INSIDE the exhibition and stood there for a long time.
The Churchill collection part of the museum was impossible to get a grip on with so many people stuffed into the room. Impossible to navigate unless you are prepared to shuffle in line for several hours to see everything, which is a lot. Someone didn't know how to prioritize, so they put enough to fill two thick books in the room. For someone with reasonably good eyes for an old man (just using reading glasses) it was hard to read a lot of the printed information due to the lack of light in places.
Had been looking forward to this, but it was overpriced and overcrowded.
I have visited many other war related museums in the UK, this was the one where expectations and the actual experience was the furthest apart.
翻译:这种体验简直就像旺季时迪士尼乐园里灯光昏暗且人潮拥挤的排队现场。最后也没有什么刺激的游乐项目……狭窄的走廊里挤满了人。在我看来,这不仅存在严重的安全隐患,我们还根本无法好好观看展品。
应该禁止私人导游的存在,他们的团队堵住了通道,游客们聚在一起听导游讲解,而不去使用免费的语音导览。此外,作为主要展品之一的地图室,我们也没能好好参观。由于一位IWM导游带领着一群人进入展览现场并在那里停留了很长时间,参观体验受到了严重限制。
博物馆中的丘吉尔藏品展区因为挤满了人而根本难以浏览。除非你愿意排上几个小时的队,否则根本无法仔细观赏所有展品——而展品的数量实在相当多。显然有人不懂得如何确定展示重点,于是就把足以填满两本厚书的资料都陈列在了那个展厅里。对于一个年纪大了但视力还算不错的老人来说(只需戴老花镜即可),由于有些地方光线不足,他很难读懂上面的文字信息。
我原本对这里满怀期待,但门票价格偏贵且游客众多。
我去过英国的许多其他战争主题博物馆,而这家博物馆的预期与实际体验之间的差距最大。