Exhibitions

The Armistice on Nov. 11, 1918 ended fighting on the Western Front, but the war—nor its lasting effects—did not end even with the signing of the Treaty of Paris at Versailles on June 28, 1919.

In France, recent scholarship has shown that the survival of women’s fashion also played an important role in life during the Great War.

Exploring the pivotal struggles felt both on the war front and the home front, The Vietnam War: 1945-1975, a traveling exhibition from the New‑York Historical Society, examines how the div

Revolutions! 1917 showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to popular rule.

Etched in Memory features color etchings by British artist James Alphege Brewer (1881-1946) presenting scenes from Belgium and Northern France—cathedrals, churches and town buildings threa

When the Great War started in the summer of 1914, a school teacher in the Montmartre district of Paris asked his students, boys ages 8-13, to write essays and express in drawings how the war would

Sand to Snow: Global War 1915 illustrates the convergence of diverse military, political, economic and social forces of the combatant nations and neutral countries.

This exhibition focuses on the art and events of the first two years of the Great War, beginning with the invasion of Belgium and the campaign on the Marne and concluding with the fruitless efforts

Using the fields, villages, and people who witnessed the devastation of World War I, the soldier artists in this exhibition convey a shared understanding of the importance in depicting the look and

The war saw a vast output of pictorial work that attempted to capture the harsh realities of fighting.

100 Years of Collecting provides a window to examine incredibly diverse objects and documents as well as the opportunity to see how this monumental collection – the most comprehensive in t

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

In the aftermath of World War I millions of servicemen and women came home from a war that was unprecedented in its impact on those who experienced it.

The two bullets fired on June 28, 1914 outside of a delicatessen in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, placed the world “on the brink” and led to a sequence of events that changed the wor

Nursing played a crucial role during the First World War.