Exhibitions

The posters of 1914-1919 illustrate every phase and difficulty and social and political movement from recruiting to munitions work to war loans to the Red Cross to women’s work to blatant propagand

Often overlooked in the history of the war, the Eastern Front had cataclysmic results for the millions affected.

The exhibition, organized by the Franco-American Museum, Château de Blérancourt, France, consisted of more than forty vintage photographs and rare silent film footage that bring to life the extraor

If you want to know a generation of Americans, then listen to the popular music they embraced in their youth. 

From the “high art” of such luminaries as France’s Pierre Carrier-Belleuse to the etched mess kit of an unknown American soldier to so-called “trench art,” this exhibit illustrated a wide range of

In 2010, the special exhibition Man and Machine: The German Soldier in World War I offered rare insight into the Great War by sharing stories from the German viewpoint.

From the earliest history of armed conflict, soldiers–at least the more fortunate ones–have done their duty and returned to their homes and families.

The 2009 exhibition Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace paired 42 pieces of art by Charles Schulz with historical objects drawn from the Museum and Memorial’s World War I aviation collect

Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster, previously the successful medium of commercial advertising, was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities

Though the Museum and Memorial has focused on World War I material culture since the establishment of the collection, it has amassed significant works of art from around the globe.

Faces and places frozen in time, snapped by both amateur and professional photographers, capture the resilience of humanity in the midst of the horrors of war.

The Diggers and Doughboys became fast comrades not only because their campaign hats and swagger were similar, but also from their shared democratic outlook on military rules, regulations and office

The ten years leading to the outbreak of World War I, 1904—1914, witnessed a series of small and large conflicts between the major European powers over territory in Europe and overseas possessions.

An abbreviated version of the exhibition featuring portraits of seven Holocaust survivors from Kansas City continued through Oct. 20 in front of the Museum and Memorial Main Entrance.

The World Remembers is an international education project whose purpose is to remember and honor these combatants who perished during each year of th