Explore everything WWI

Celebrate a century of educators who have used the National WWI Museum and Memorial as a place of learning and inspiration.

(CANCELED) This month, Living History volunteers focus on the ways family and friends supported their soldiers from the home front. Bring your curiosity and questions!

Discover the astonishing story of a lost world of men and women who remade American democracy amid the reverberations of the Great War with Yale professor John Fabian Witt.

Author Dava Sobel illuminates the life and enduring influence of scientist Marie Skłodowska-Curie from a unique angle – through the women who became her legacy, including her daughter Irène.

(RESCHEDULED) Winnie-the-Pooh turns 100! 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.

From a Prussian soldier on the Western Front to a U.S. Army major helping to denazify his homeland decades later, journey through Fritz Oppenheimer’s incredible story spanning an ocean and two world wars.

(RESCHEDULED) 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.

Donate blood to support those in need, in honor of the WWI doctors and soldiers who first stored blood for future transfusions.

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

An exclusive evening of learning, connection and celebration for educators as part of the Museum and Memorial’s celebration of America’s 250th, in partnership with George Washington's Mount Vernon.

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

Explore how laws and communities fulfilled or failed on the promise that “all men are created equal.”

The session explores debates around conscription, civil liberties, and voluntary service, placing students at the center of this historic decision-making.

Explore how wartime opened new doors for some Americans – while closing others – reshaping work, mobility, and social possibility.

This session explores how Americans debated participation in a global conflict while confronting questions of voting rights, representation and the needs of “America First.”