Past Exhibitions
Rearranging History: Daniel MacMorris and the Panthéon de la Guerre
What happened to the world's largest painting? Kansas City artist Daniel MacMorris helped the Museum and Memorial acquire the Panthéon de la Guerre in 1956. He then cut and pasted sections from the huge canvas, rearranged them, painted in new individuals and fit the newly configured composition to the north wall of Memory Hall, where it remains today. The exhibition explores the vast fragments left behind by MacMorris – the majority having never been seen in public since the Panthéon's last showing in its entirety in 1940.
Lest We Forget
For this deeply moving exhibition, German-Italian photographer and filmmaker Luigi Toscano visited and took portraits of almost 400 Holocaust survivors in the United States, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Belarus, Austria and the Netherlands. In Lest We Forget, 70 of those photographs are presented outdoors as large-scale portraits, seven of which feature Kansas City-area Holocaust survivors. Exhibition open Sept. 20 – Oct. 6, 2019 on the Memorial Courtyard. Abbreviated version continues on display through Oct. 20.
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 the war by displaying their names in more than 75 locations throughout Europe and North America for a period of eight weeks ending with the Western Front Armistice Day of Nov. 11. On view Sept. 12 – Nov. 11, 2018 in Epilogue Gallery.