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.

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

Open through October 27, 2025: On envelopes carrying letters to his son, John Ross Myers carefully painted cartoons, scenes of camp life, patriotic symbols, mythological figures and expressive scen

West Lobby Gallery
Exploring Women's History

Votes & Voices

The passage of the 19th Amendment was deeply influenced by women’s involvement in WWI, on the battle and home fronts.

Wylie Gallery

Sacred Service

Open through September 8, 2025: 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 serve

Lower Level Lobby

War Toys: Ukraine

Twelve Ukrainian children's drawings are presented alongside photographer Brian McCarty's photographs recreating the children’s firsthand accounts of war with toy figures, documenting today’s confl

They Shall Not Pass | 1916

Mud and mayhem, death and destruction, staggering unnecessary losses. All aptly describe the two pivotal battles of 1916, the Somme and Verdun.

Memory Hall
Immersive VR Experience

War Remains

[ARCHIVED] This is not a game. This is History. Live through the war to end all wars unlike ever before in this immersive VR experience.

Wylie Gallery

John Singer Sargent - “Gassed”

“Gassed,” which is on loan from the Imperial War Museums in the U.K., has been viewed by tens of millions of people since its completion.

Exhibit Hall

Entertaining the Troops

Whether it was card games in the trenches or dancing in Paris, explore the varied ways soldiers devised to defeat boredom and keep morale up both on and off the battlefield.

Memory Hall

War & Art

During the First World War even Italy’s historical and artistic heritage became a powerful propaganda tool for the country affected by the war.

Memory Hall

Devastated Lands

The Western Front of World War I that the American forces saw when they arrived and until they returned home was comprised of scenes of environmental degradation on an unfathomable scale, obliterat

Wylie Gallery

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow 

From the end of the Civil War to the end of WWI, explore the central role played by African Americans in advocating for their rights – and the depth of the opposition to them.

For Liberty: American Jewish Experience in WWI

From Irving Berlin’s draft registration card to the handwritten draft of the Balfour Declaration, this exhibition illustrates the lasting effects of World War I on the American Jewish population.

Wylie Gallery
Oct. 28, 2022 - April 30, 2023

Captured

Nearly 9 million people were held as prisoners of war at some point during the four brutal years of the Great War – by both sides. Seldom told, their experiences are some of the most common.