Did you know...World Museum fact!

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Here is our World Museum fact for the day in our daily countdown to all the 150th birthday celebrations happening this weekend:

Did you know... that the museum was bombed during World War II? It happened on 3 May 1941 and you can see the extent of the damage in the before and after images below.

Photos of the inside of the museum

Before and after the museum was bombed.