ABSTRACT
This chapter assess how museum exhibitions and displays, both national and regional, both virtual and real, represent the war to their audiences and how in turn these are used by audiences. The museums, memorials and the modern memory of the Great War in Britain provide a means of assessing the cultural heritage of the conflict. However, what can certainly be discerned within this approach is the nature of the cultural heritage of the Great War in Britain as a critical and anti-democratic discourse. The existence of this aspect of the cultural heritage of the war ensures that current members of the government, local authorities or any figure in a position of power can be assessed on this basis of responsibility and blame. The trauma of the conflict is evoked through a variety of mediums, within political and media representation to the recreation societies and campaigners seeking to preserve the memory of the war for the next generation.
