Memory Hall
Immersive VR Experience

War Remains

This is not a game. This is History. Live through the war to end all wars unlike ever before in this immersive VR experience.

Exhibit Hall

Entertaining the Troops

Whether it was card games in the trenches or dancing in Paris, explore the varied ways soldiers devised to defeat boredom and keep morale up both on and off the battlefield.

Wylie Gallery
Oct. 28, 2022 - April 30, 2023

Captured

Nearly 9 million people were held as prisoners of war at some point during the four brutal years of the Great War – by both sides. Seldom told, their experiences are some of the most common.

Wylie Gallery

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow 

From the end of the Civil War to the end of WWI, explore the central role played by African Americans in advocating for their rights – and the depth of the opposition to them.

World Power and Imperialism, 1904-1914

Road to War

The ten years leading to the outbreak of World War I, 1904—1914, witnessed a series of small and large conflicts between the major European powers over territory in Europe and overseas possessions.

Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace

The 2009 exhibition Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace paired 42 pieces of art by Charles Schulz with historical objects drawn from the Museum and Memorial’s World War

Ellis Gallery

We’re Home—Now What?

In the aftermath of World War I millions of servicemen and women came home from a war that was unprecedented in its impact on those who experienced it.

West Lobby Gallery

The World Remembers

The World Remembers is an international education project whose purpose is to remember and honor these combatants who perished during each year of th

Art of War: Political Humor

“During The Big Brawl: Humorous Imaginings” (“La Grande Bagarre: Fantaisies Humoristiques”) is a collection of political cartoons created by Gustave A. Wendt between 1915 and 1916.

Exhibit Hall

War Art

From the “high art” of such luminaries as France’s Pierre Carrier-Belleuse to the etched mess kit of an unknown American soldier to so-called “trench art,” this exhibit illustrated a wide ran

Memory Hall

War & Art

During the First World War even Italy’s historical and artistic heritage became a powerful propaganda tool for the country affected by the war.

Ellis Gallery

War Around Us: Soldier Artist Impressions

Using the fields, villages, and people who witnessed the devastation of World War I, the soldier artists in this exhibition convey a shared understanding of the importance in depicting the look and

Wylie Gallery

The Vietnam War: 1945‑1975

Exploring the pivotal struggles felt both on the war front and the home front, The Vietnam War: 1945-1975, a traveling exhibition from the New‑York Historical Society, examines how the div