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.

Coffee and World War 1: Soluble Science

Students will learn about states of matter to understand how instant coffee is made. Through a series of readings and activities, students will discover different processes of making instant coffee,...
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.

Wylie Gallery

Sacred Service

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 served, yet they strove to bring cour

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

On envelopes carrying letters to his son, John Ross Myers carefully painted cartoons, scenes of camp life, patriotic symbols, mythological figures and expressive scenes of the American Expeditionar

Documentary screening and conversation
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | 5:30 p.m.

Celebrating a Legacy: U.S. Army Chaplain Corps

Celebrate the 250-year legacy of the United States Army Chaplain Corps with a reception, documentary screening and panel conversation.

The Bonus March – Vince Vaise

Learn why veterans of WWI, in a racially integrated movement, marched on Washington D.C. in 1932 and how they created a camp at Anacostia Park.