Total number of objects in the Imperial War Museum's collection

Dear Mr Roberto,

Thank you for your email which has been passed to me for reply.

Here at the Imperial War Museum our collections are documented to
varying levels, as appropriate for the item or type of material, for
example, some is catalogued by 'collection' rather than by 'item'.

A recent bench marking exercise identified records for 10, 700,000
items, and collections of items, across our constituent departments of
Art, Documents, Exhibits and Firearms, Printed Books, Sound, Film and
Photographs and Vehicles and Aircraft.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Whitmore
Director of Collections

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7:46 pm >>>
Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to request the total number of objects that you hold
in
your permanent collections.

If an exact figure is not available, please provide instead your
estimated total, along with an explanation as to how this figure
was calculated.

Yours faithfully,

Frankie Roberto

P.S Please note that this same request has been made to all the
UK
museums covered under the Freedom of Information Act, and that
your
response will be automatically made public at
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is
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