IWM Collection: Photographs of military equipment

IWM holds an extensive collection of military equipment from the last century 

This dataset provides reliable structured data on images within IWM's collections related to military equipment used in twentieth and twenty-first-century warfare, including radios, cipher machines, radars, cameras and medical equipment. 

To the best of IWM's knowledge, this data is commercially safe for licensing and suitable for scholarly and AI applications. 

IWM cares for over 155,000 three-dimensional objects

These objects illustrate the impact of technology on modern warfare and the personal experiences of those involved. The care of these objects is managed by specialised curators and collections teams to preserve the history of modern conflict and use for museum exhibits, with cataloguing data meticulously researched from primary sources. 

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Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum founded in 1917 to record the story of the Great War and later expanded to include all military operations in which British or Commonwealth forces have been involved.

IWM’s collections are a multi-media resource representing the human experience of conflict. As the official repository for materials produced by British government entities including the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU), IWM holds delegated authority from The National Archives to license the re-use of Crown Copyright archival film and photographs

Contact IWM's Image and Film Licensing team to translate historic collections into successful products.

Image: IWM (Q 58461)