My friend and colleague Roger Tolson, who has died aged 55 of cancer, was at the forefront of innovative exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum in London that changed the way visitors perceived both war and the experience of going to a museum.
His projects included Queen and Country, for which he and the artist Steve McQueen worked with families whose son or daughter had been killed in Iraq, and the installation of Jeremy Deller's Baghdad Car, a civilian vehicle wrecked in the Mutanabbi Street bombing of 2007, in the centre of the museum's then rather traditionally displayed atrium.
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