CEW Bean Building and Research Centre

Charles Edwin Woodrow (C.E.W) Bean was Australia’s first official war correspondent in the First World War. He later wrote six volumes of the Official History of the war, and was a founder and driving force for the Australian War Memorial.

Named in his honour, the extended CEW Bean Building (designed by Lyons Architecture) will house the Memorial’s extensive archives with extended space to store, digitise and preserve our extensive archives.

The world-class Charles Bean Research Centre will provide:

• A welcoming space for visitors, researchers and historians
• Advanced services for family history research
• Secure access to the National Collection 
• Access from the forecourt of Poppy's cafe