Explore everything WWI

Join The Modernists for good company, conversation and even better cocktails. Open to members and non-members alike. Join us this month at Elixir, the soda fountain in the Kansas City Museum!

Take a special guided tour of The Little War, tailored for young audiences, exploring children’s experiences in WWI. Free with Featured Exhibition admission.

What’s the best way to research any WWI topic using the Museum and Memorial’s extensive resources? Learn how with our research volunteers and Museum educator Haley Sheriff.

What does a world war look like to a child? Specialist curator Natalie Lovgren goes in-depth into the stories behind the artifacts in "The Little War" exhibition. Exclusive to Museum Members!

Check out non-accessioned WWI objects and ask questions as Living History volunteers bring to life the ways soldiers entertained themselves when not in battle.

Guests with sensory sensitivities are welcome to explore the Museum and Memorial in a calm, low-stimulating environment 90 minutes before public opening.

Calling all K-12 teachers! Our galleries and exhibitions are yours for FREE all weekend long; just present your school badge at the Ticketing Counter.

Sharpen your pencils: historian Andrew Donson examines how schoolteachers helped mobilize German teenagers and schoolchildren into extreme political movements.

The Museum and Memorial is partnering with the American Red Cross for a donation event. Like soldiers did 100 years ago, you can do your civic and patriotic duty by donating blood to support those in need.

The cloudy past of America's forbidden flower continues to elude and allure us. Sample non-infused edibles, then explore the evolution of cannabis use and its prohibition since the WWI era with industry experts and scholars.

"The war to end all wars" instead indirectly set the stage for WWII and many conflicts since. In this documentary screening, return to Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Take a special guided tour of The Little War, tailored for young audiences, exploring children’s experiences in WWI. Free with Featured Exhibition admission.

Examine T. E. Lawrence’s letters and memoirs with Dr. Barbara Cooke, witnessing Lawrence’s search for his own identity while in the shadow of his famous mythic persona.

Stretch out (like WWI internee Joseph Pilates) and sip some cold-pressed juice, all in one free session.