Churchill War Rooms
🤓Tours
⭐ Highligts
Cabinet Room
Where the war was runMinisters crowded this low-ceilinged room for nightly briefings; Churchill’s chair still faces the maps.
📍 Core bunker, first rooms
Map Room
24/7 nerve centreStaffed around the clock through WWII, the Map Room is preserved as it was - Churchill spent D-Day (6 June 1944) here.
📍 Bunker corridor, centre
Secret Phone Room
Secure US hotlineA cubicle masked the SIGSALY link that let Churchill speak privately with President Roosevelt.
📍 Disguised ‘lavatory’ door
Churchill Museum
Life, leadership, legacyFrom school reports to wartime speeches and victory broadcasts, follow Churchill’s story in immersive displays.
📍 Galleries off main route
Life Underground
Daily grind of the bunkerMess rooms, typists’ desks and bunks show how staff lived and worked without daylight for years.
📍 Service corridors
Opening Hours
🤓 Fun Facts
The Cabinet War Rooms opened to the public in 1984; the spaces remained largely intact after their wartime closure.
Churchill spent D-Day - 6 June 1944 - in the Map Room as staff plotted the invasion and tracked convoys.
A ‘private toilet’ concealed the Transatlantic Telephone Room, using SIGSALY encryption for secret calls to the US President.
The bunker’s Map Room was manned 24 hours a day throughout the war, its walls layered with pins and string plotting ship movements.
The War Rooms form part of Imperial War Museums, alongside HMS Belfast and IWM London.
