Wylie Gallery

Paris at War

Opening November 6, 2025: Follow the people of Paris through the twists and turns of World War I: from pinnacle of the French empire, to hunger and terror as German shells fell, to social and polit

Main Gallery

Encounters

Through cutting-edge audio/visual storytelling, visitors meet 16 individuals and hear their intimate first-person accounts crafted from diaries, letters and photos.

West Lobby Gallery

Iron Harvest

Explore the open wounds that WWI battles left in the fields of northeastern France and Belgium, confronting a lingering legacy of war that outlasts conflicts by generations.

Main Gallery
Experience the Great War like you never have before in 3D virtual reality

Virtual Reality Experiences

Experience the Great War like you never have before in 3D virtual reality: A battle in a trench on the Western Front, and the forgotten story of the Choctaw Code Talkers.

Wylie Gallery

Sacred Service

Rabbis, pastors, monks, imams, priests and more served with the fighting nations of World War I; many as unprepared for the horrors of war as the soldiers they served, yet they strove to bring cour

Exhibit Hall
Featured Exhibition

The Little War

Explore the lives of children swept up by the storms of World War I while adults were fighting on the front line and supporting the war effort.

Ellis Gallery

Mail Call

On envelopes carrying letters to his son, John Ross Myers carefully painted cartoons, scenes of camp life, patriotic symbols, mythological figures and expressive scenes of the American Expeditionar

Main Gallery
View The World War Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It

Main Gallery: The World War, 1914-1919

Included with your General Admission ticket, the Main Gallery of the National WWI Museum and Memorial holds the permanent exhibition, “The World War, 1914-1919.”

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Digital Exhibition

Charmed Soldiers

Surrounded by industrial violence and death, servicemembers of World War I renewed faith, discovered magic and witnessed miracles in everyday and extraordinary objects.

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Online
A WWI POW Camp of Propaganda

Fighting with Faith

"Fighting with Faith" explores the WWI alliance between Germany and the Ottoman Empire – how they used art, writing, architecture and special treatment to target prisoners in the Half Moon Camp, an

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Google Cultural Institute

Home Before the Leaves Fall

Home Before the Leaves Fall explores the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the July Crisis and the opening months of the Great War through an examination of images, objects, video

Online
A Guided Journey through WWI History

Curator's Tour

Explore highlights of the National WWI Museum and Memorial with this narrated, immersive tour of the galleries, guided by our Curator of Education.

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Google Arts & Culture

Immersive Tour with Colonel (ret) R. Dudley

Colonel (ret) R. Dudley, a Museum volunteer, narrates this immersive tour of the National WWI Museum and Memorial, including his personal highlights.