CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION
During the centennial of the Great War (1914-19), the National World War I Museum and Memorial will host a series of special exhibitions, programs, and events to commemorate the first global war in history. Highlights of the Museum's offerings are below. See the Museum's Upcoming Events for a full list of programs.
Wilson's War ProclamationOn view in the exhibition Revolutions! 1917Posted: April 10, 2017 The document joins many rarely-seen objects in the exhibition Revolutions! 1917, which focuses on the revolutions—political and cultural— that left their mark on 1917 and the war still raging worldwide. Wilson's war proclamation has not been on exhibit to the public in more than 50 years. Read More |
Revolutions! 1917April 7, 2017 – April 8, 2018, Exhibit HallPosted: March 29, 2017The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts. Exhibition open April 7, 2017 – April 8, 2018 in Exhibit Hall. Read More |
Vive l’Amérique: French Children Welcome Their American AllyMarch 21 – Oct. 15, 2017, Ellis GalleryPosted: March 02, 2017When the U.S. entered WWI in April 1917, a school teacher in the Montmartre district of Paris asked his students to write essays and express in drawings how this would affect their lives. A century later, Le Vieux Montmartre Historical Society loans 30 of these drawings and two essays on this subject to be on exhibit the first time anywhere in the world. Exhibition open March 21 – Oct. 15, 2017 Read More |
Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: The Doughboys 1917-1918March 31 – Aug. 20, 2017, Memorial CourtyardPosted: February 27, 2017Michael St Maur Sheil’s portraits of WWI battlefields are featured in an outdoor photographic exhibition which tells of the healed scars of the First World War through our only remaining living witness: the fields of battle themselves. Once places of devastating violence, we now see landscapes of great beauty, testament to peace and remembrance. Open March 31 – Aug. 20, 2017 Read More |
In Sacrifice for Liberty and PeaceCentennial Commemoration of the U.S. Entry into World War I |
Posters as Munitions, 1917Feb. 21, 2017 – Feb. 18, 2018, Memory HallPosted: January 09, 2017 Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster, previously the successful medium of commercial advertising was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Its value as an educational or stimulating influence was more and more appreciated. The poster could impress an idea quickly, vividly and lastingly. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication. This new exhibition will be on view in Memory Hall, Feb. 21, 2017 – Feb. 18, 2018. Read More |