The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in wars involving the Commonwealth of Australia. The memorial includes an extensive national military museum. The Australian War Memorial was opened in 1941, and is widely regarded as one of the most significant memorials of its type in the world.
The Memorial is located in Australia's capital, Canberra. It is the north terminus of the city's ceremonial land axis, which stretches from Parliament House on Capital Hill along a line passing through the summit of the cone-shaped Mount Ainslie to the northeast. No continuous roadway links the two points, but there is a clear line of sight from the front balcony of Parliament House to the War Memorial, and from the front steps of the War Memorial back to Parliament House.
The Australian War Memorial consists of three parts: the Commemorative Area (shrine) including the Hall of Memory with the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier, the Memorial's galleries (museum) and Research Centre (records). The Memorial also has an outdoor Sculpture Garden. The Memorial is currently open daily from 10am until 5pm, except on Christmas Day.
Many people include Anzac Parade as part of the Australian War Memorial because of the Parade's physical design leading up to the War Memorial, but it is maintained separately by the National Capital Authority (NCA)
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The center of the memory area is the Hall of Memory, a domed structure in the form of an octagon. The walls are made up of small mosaic tiles below the dome. In this domed building are the tomb of the unknown soldier and other monuments. The east, west and south walls are decorated with stained glass, representing the qualities of soldiers. On the four walls facing north-east, south-east, and south-west are mosaic wall paintings of one soldier each, on the northwest wall of a female army.
In front of the Hall of Remembrance is a narrow courtyard with an eternal flame in the middle of a water basin. The basin is flanked by sidewalks and rosemary bushes. Above the inner court, on both sides, long, covered passageways with the Roll of Honor, bronze memorial plaques with the names of all 102,000 Australian militants, who left their lives in action. Throughout the entire wall of the western gallery are engraved the names of those who fell in the First World War, the wall of the east with the names of the fallen of the Second World War and later conflicts.
In the list of honors only names are listed, but not grades or awards, since "all are equal after death". Visitors often put little pieces of paper in the columns between the individual plaques to commemorate their relatives or friends. The museum explicitly points out that the Breaker Morant, honored in Australia as a national hero, is not listed in the list of honors simply because he did not actually belong to the Australian troops during the Burial War.
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