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distinctly Australian identity. The institution plays a pivotal role in helping Australians to commemorate and understand the sacrifice and loss of Australians during war.
                                                                                                                                  The AWM together with Anzac Parade is an important national icon. Its major features include: the main building; the medieval stone lions at the entrance; the ceremonial landscape including the Lone Pine tree; and displays and sculptures. The AWM and Anzac Parade are major venues for national commemorative services and events such as the ANZAC Day march.
                                                                                                                                  Anzac Parade, as part of the Parliamentary Vista and an extension of the AWM, is part of one of the major designed landscapes of Australia. A ceremonial space of this grandeur is unique in Australia.
                                                                                                                                  The AWM and the memorials along Anzac Parade represent changing concepts of commemoration in Australia, influenced by the armed forces and community groups. The Hall of Memory with the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier, and aspects of its setting are notable.
 Commentary                                                                                                                       The NHL statement provides an accurate evaluation against criterion (a).
 Suggested Revision                                                                                                               No revision required.
 Criterion (b) Rarity—the place's possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Australia's natural or cultural history.
 Official Statement of Heritage Value                                                                                             The AWM building is a purpose built repository, reflecting the integral relationship between the building, commemorative spaces and the collections. This is unique in Australia and rare elsewhere in the world. The values are expressed in the fabric of the main building, the entrance, the Hall of Memory, the collections and the surrounding landscape.

                                                                                                                                                                          The AWM collection contains unique objects including a Lancaster bomber and the largest collection of Victoria Crosses in the world. The building contains rare elements, notably the medieval stone lions at the entrance and the Hall of Memory with its largest mosaics in the world.
                                                                                                                                                                          Anzac Parade, as part of the Parliamentary Vista and as an extension of the AWM, is part of one of the major cultural landscapes of Australia. The grandeur of the ceremonial space is not found elsewhere in Australia.
                                                                                                                                                                          Anzac Parade is nationally important for its public and commemorative functions.
 Commentary                                                                                                                                                               The claim that the mosaics in the Hall of Memory are the largest mosaics in the world is not substantiated. The Memorial Art Section advises the Hall of Memory mosaic is the largest in the southern hemisphere, not the world.
                                                                                                                                                                          The statement regarding the Memorial's collection of Victoria Crosses (VCs) is incorrect, and only relates to collections in public hands. The largest collection of VCs is held privately, by Lord Ashcroft, on public display at the Imperial War Museum in the UK. In addition to the Museum's own collection, this exhibition houses the largest collection of VCs on display in a public institution.
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