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Liberty's Beacon: An Artistic Light Installation

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The world's most comprehensive WWI collection

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Paris at War

Follow the people of Paris through the twists and turns of World War I: from pinnacle of the French ...

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Main Gallery: The World War, 1914-1919

Included with your General Admission ticket, the Main Gallery of the National WWI Museum and Memoria...

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The Words that Bind Us

On Sept. 17, 1787, fifty-five delegates approved the final document that would become the Constituti...

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What Fit in a Suitcase: Art by WWI POWs in Siberia

In a harsh prisoner-of-war camp in southern Siberia, Austrian officer Rudolf Ernst collected his fel...

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Story of the Museum and Memorial

Shortly after the Armistice, Kansas City residents built the Liberty Memorial to honor those who ser...

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Encounters

Through cutting-edge audio/visual storytelling, visitors meet 16 individuals and hear their intimate...

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Iron Harvest

Explore the open wounds that WWI battles left in the fields of northeastern France and Belgium, conf...

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Bergman Family Gallery and Open Storage Center

Included with your General Admission ticket, the Lower Level features the Bergman Family Gallery and...

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Upcoming Events

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Live Demonstration

Monday, Wednesday, Friday-Sunday | 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Hands-on History (Nov. 2026)

History is brought to life in this family-friendly program in which guests of all ages are invited to handle Great War artifacts.

Monday, Friday-Saturday | Select times

Main Gallery Tours (Nov. 2026)

Explore the Main Gallery with one of our knowledgeable Museum and Memorial guides on a tour.

Professional Development

Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026 | 7 p.m.

Educator Professional Development: Rights and WWI

Analyze the rights expanded, challenged and restricted during wartime, and how upheaval reshaped civic life in the United States.

Lecture

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2026 | 6:30 p.m.

Pershing Lecture Series | The Wars Before the War: The Boer Wars

The First and Second Boer Wars shattered romanticized illusions of 19th-century empire. Dr. Sean Kalic analyzes the deep systemic vulnerabilities that...

Live Demonstration

Monday, Wednesday, Friday-Sunday | 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Hands-on History (Dec. 2026)

History is brought to life in this family-friendly program in which guests of all ages are invited to handle Great War artifacts.

Monday, Friday-Saturday | Select times

Main Gallery Tours (Dec. 2026)

Explore the Main Gallery with one of our knowledgeable Museum and Memorial guides on a tour.

Welcome to the National WWI Museum and Memorial

From Research & Education, to our Collection & Exhibitions. We offer a variety of ways to Learn About WWI.

Explore everything WWI

Close-up on a black and white portrait of a seated WWI officer, zoomed in on the whistle hanging on a lanyard around his neck

Article

Whistles

Fuzzy sepia picture of a group of soldiers seated around a table scattered with drinks and toasting the camera

Article

Ghosts of Chrismukkahs Past

Black and white photo of a group of young white women dressed in classical-Greek-inspired robes

Collection

Vestal Virgin's Costume

Photograph from above of bowl of flour and cornmeal, surrounded by baking equipment

Article

Baking During a Time of Crisis

Photograph of two sculpted figures attached to a stone structure with wings, helmets, and holding swords.

Article

The Guardian Spirits

Black and white photo of three people posed for a group photo. Left to right: a white man in military uniform with both legs amputated nearly at the hip, resting on a small platform with wheels. A white woman in a dark-colored dress sitting in a rocking chair. A white man wearing a suit sitting in a rocking chair with a crutch leaning on a pillar behind him. The woman has her arm around the shoulders of the man on the left and her hand on the arm of the man on the right.

Article

Becoming Bespoke: When One Size of Prosthetic Does Not Fit All

Stylized painting of the silhouettes of a soldier sitting down on a battlefield and a dog in front of him.

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Dogs in WWI

WWI-era map of Ukraine and the Black Sea

Article

Historian Michael S. Neiberg on Ukraine and WWI

Close-up detail shot on an olive-colored uniform tunic and a medal hanging from the chest pocket

Collection

Chaplain C. W. Mayfield's A.E.F. tunic

Scan of a page with printed diagrams of microbe cultures under a microscope.

Article

Pandemic Then and Now

Poster painting of a white man with a white goatee and white hair, wearing a blue suit jacket and a top hat banded with white stars on a blue ribbon. The man is pointing at the viewer.

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Uncle Sam: We Want You

Sepia photograph of a Black woman in cap and uniform saluting while holding a U.S. flag.

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African American Women and WWI

Illustration from a WWI Poster of a woman in work coveralls and a cap holding up models of an airplane and an artillery shell

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Exhibitions

Paris at War

Main Gallery: The World War, 1914-1919

The Words that Bind Us

What Fit in a Suitcase: Art by WWI POWs in Siberia

Story of the Museum and Memorial

Encounters

Iron Harvest

Bergman Family Gallery and Open Storage Center

Upcoming Events

Welcome to the National WWI Museum and Memorial

From Research & Education, to our Collection & Exhibitions. We offer a variety of ways to Learn About WWI.

Explore everything WWI

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