Exhibitions

An abbreviated version of the exhibition featuring portraits of seven Holocaust survivors from Kansas City continued through Oct. 20 in front of the Museum and Memorial Main Entrance.

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

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.

The two bullets fired on June 28, 1914 outside of a delicatessen in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, placed the world “on the brink” and led to a sequence of events that changed the wor

Nursing played a crucial role during the First World War.

When the German army advanced into the western territory of the Russian Empire (Poland, Lithuania, Belarus) in the spring and summer of 1915, the German soldier encountered a physical and cultural

Individual Americans immediately volunteered for humanitarian and military service primarily with the Allies after World War I broke out in 1914.

This special centennial exhibition, Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: The Doughboys, 1917-1918, features the incredible contemporary photographs of Michael St Maur Sheil, depicting the bat

When Great Britain entered the war, so did Canada. Prime Minister Robert Borden issued an appeal for a “supreme national effort” and offered Canada’s assistance to Great Britain.

“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.

A special exhibition tracing the Panthéon de la Guerre’s remarkable journey opened in 2012 in conjunction with Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-19