British Forces News - feature on A Short Fuze exhibition at NMRN

Explosion Museum is delighted to announce the installation of a new exhibition that will run from June until October amongst the existing gallery displays.

The exhibition is the work of artist Helen Snell who has been ‘artist in residence’ at the National Museum of the Royal Navy. Explosion, now part of the National Museum, will benefit from a number of initiatives including the artist residency project.

Artist Helen Snell said of the exhibition – “It is a great privilege to be artist in residence at the National Museum of the Royal Navy and to have access to the extraordinary archives across all of the museums. With each new visit I get a growing sense of the vast and breathtaking scale of the collections that chart such pivotal and diverse moments in our history. Each visit is a journey in its own right. I have been very challenged, humbled and inspired by the things I have seen so far.

I have found the collections at Explosion to be some of the most demanding and sobering of all the museums. It is bewildering to be faced with so much hardware that has been designed, in methodical and chilling detail, to cause death and destruction. Politics aside, these objects ultimately make us question how and why our powers of empathy fail. They symbolise the breakdown of complex systems of communication and diplomacy, which leads to violent conflict. We are reminded of our inadequacies as human beings.

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