Explore everything WWI

The Kansas City Symphony’s Mobile Music Box returns to the Museum and Memorial! Join us on the North Lawn for a one-hour performance.

Mistrust. Scarcity. Fear. How did a functioning constitutional state become a dictatorship overnight? Explore how the Habsburg Monarchy created the conditions for its own demise.

Join us for a screening of the 2004 award-winning film “A Very Long Engagement,” as part of Alliance Française de Kansas City's French Film Festival. Subtitles in English.

Stop by the front entrance to send birthday wishes to Uncle Sam as part of the #OnOur250th initiative honoring the United States’ 250th birthday this year.

Members, this is your opportunity to see The Beautiful Game – the newest exhibition about football (soccer) at the Museum and Memorial – before it opens to the public!

Serving as a nurse and a pharmacist in Great Britain, Agatha Christie intimately saw the effects of the Great War. In an evening that will be the best of alibis, celebrate the legacy and literature of an iconic enigma: the Queen of Crime.

In the final months of WWI, a group of British, American and French spies plotted to overthrow Russia’s new communist government and kill Vladimir Lenin. Investigate the “Lockhart Plot” with historian James Crossland.

In a candid, fact-checked conversation, a panel of economic experts will unpack the forces and pressures shaping millions of Americans’ wallets.

Winnie-the-Pooh turns 100! During Christopher Robin's birthday month, celebrate and learn more about the real-life WWI bear who inspired the “tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff” with an educational extravaganza for all ages.

The worldwide scouting movement began in the years leading up to the Great War. On Scout Day at the Museum and Memorial, Scouts and Scout Leaders receive $5 admission.

Lift the covers of the first edition of T. E. Lawrence’s “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” (fewer than 200 copies were published) and peek at the paintings, caricatures and unusual page layouts within.

What purpose does law serve in war? Historian Ben Schneider traces the century-long legacy of efforts to control battlefield violence and hold combatants accountable during WWI.