Having visited the museum three separate times, with varied groups of people. Everyone has uniformly loved it. When you can take a group of high school students there and they enjoy it as much as your military-history loving husband, it is definitely a winner!

Aside from the obvious historical importance of some of the documents (like Hitler’s signed order authorizing the march on Poland) the museum has a couple of interactive sections that bring the reality of war to life in a way that exhibits in glass cases cannot do. The WWI section wants the visitor to experience what trench warfare was actually like (and you do) and the WWII interactive exhibit attempts to replicate (with great success) what life was like during an air raid for Londoners during the Blitz. One hesitates to say more because of spoiling the experience. Take the Elephant & Castle Line on the Tube and you will be there in a short walk.