A single state's own national museums, archives and comparable cultural or memorial institutions, distinct from a commercial, financial or intergovernmental body. Belongs here: the Imperial War Museum as Britain's national museum of war and conflict, and future entities of the same kind, such as a national archive or national gallery. Does not belong here: an internationally constituted body, however cultural its mission, filed under International and Intergovernmental Organizations.
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Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, it was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of the United Kingdom and its Empire during the First World War.
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