These plans include a £35 million refurbishment of the WW1 galleries at the Imperial War Museum London (IWM); a project made possible due to an extra £5 million from the Treasury announced today. This additional money will be paid for from fines imposed on financial services firms for misconduct.
And Culture Secretary Maria Miller will chair an expert advisory panel to oversee the programme and ensure that the centenary plans are delivered.
Speaking at the IWM, an institution founded in 1917 to record the then still-continuing conflict, Mr Cameron said that he wanted to build a truly national commemoration, worthy of this historic centenary.
The Government’s principal partners in the commemorations will be the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the IWM, but will encompass support for a multitude of other initiatives, large and small, as they come together in the months and years to come.
£50m commitment:
The Prime Minister said:
“In total, over £50 million is being committed to these centenary commemorations, and it is absolutely right that these commemorations should be given such priority. As a twenty year old soldier wrote just a week before he died ‘But for this war I and all the others would have passed into oblivion like the countless myriads before us . . . but we shall live for ever in the results of our efforts’.
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