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The National WWI Museum and Memorial is pleased to announce that the display of the original painting of Saint Javelin has been extended to Sept. 10, 2023.

The National WWI Museum and Memorial is undergoing major updates. You will notice some changes over the next year, including the temporary closure of the Lower Level and the Edward Jones Research Center, with a planned reopening of an expanded research and collections space in early 2023.

In conjunction with events occurring downtown on Wednesday, Feb. 15 to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVII win, the National WWI Museum and Memorial will be open from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. and is offering a special discount admission rate of $10.

The next exhibition to open at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, "Entertaining the Troops", gives a peek into the spare hours in the life of a WWI soldier on and off the battlefield.

Beginning June 8, 2023, in collaboration with Design Museum Everywhere, the National WWI Museum and Memorial will explore prosthetic design and its critical role in humanizing new technologies for individuals living with limb loss or limb difference.

"Fighting with Faith: a WWI POW Camp of Propaganda" is the untold story of a mosque built at a German prisoner of war camp – the first mosque on German soil.

Cart stewarded the collection to be the most comprehensive collection of WWI objects in the world. His last day will be Dec. 31, 2022.

Nonprofit Connect, an organization dedicated to helping nonprofits in Kansas City, awarded the 2022 Philly Award gold medal for 'Website' to theworldwar.org.

Looking for gift ideas for the history buff, the Kansas City local or any other kind of person in your life? You've come to the right place.

Special hours and holiday hours for the National WWI Museum and Memorial in 2023.

Engulfed by four years of total war, the world emerged transformed. Amid the unfamiliarity of wartime and post-war societies, populations were both bound by tradition and buoyed by bids to reshape political, economic and social landscapes.

After a successful Member Preview, the Museum and Memorial's newest exhibition "Captured" - telling the story of prisoners of war in WWI - is opening today to the general public.

Against the backdrop of the Liberty Memorial Tower, representatives from Top Trumps USA along with Mayor Quinton Lucas unveiled a new edition of the Monopoly board game, themed with Kansas City destinations.

Educators and historians to attend a two-day symposium addressing the changing definition of citizenship in the period after WWI.

Join us in honoring veterans with special activities and free public ceremonies on the grounds. Admission is free for veterans and active duty military personnel, while general admission for the public is half-price all weekend.