Ellis Gallery

In L ving Memory: Dean Cross, Artist-in-Residence

Opening November 6, 2025: In our inaugural Artist-in-Residence installation, Worimi artist Dean Cross draws on his ancestor George Moss's sacrifice at Gallipoli and the Worimi tradition of Scar Tre

Exhibit Hall

The Beautiful Game

Open February 25, 2026: Journey through the story of football's impact on WWI and explore the poignant influence of “the beautiful game” on people living during wartime.

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.

Exhibit Hall
Featured Exhibition

The Little War

Open through November 11, 2025: 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.

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.”

Online

Her Vote, Her Voice

How women's contributions to WWI fueled the suffrage movement and changed American democracy, leading to passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

Online
The Letters of Lieut. Raymond B. Penniman

Stories from the Somme

See one of the most devastating battles of the Great War through the eyes of a young Canadian lieutenant, who was ultimately lost as one of the million casualties of the Somme.

Online
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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Online
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