WWI Centennial Exhibition
About The Event
Two WWI exhibitions under one roof. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has two exhibitions commemorating WWI on display now.
WW1 America is the largest traveling exhibition about the Great War and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture is its only scheduled stop on the east coast! This exhibition on display from
February 17 to July 29, 2018, features more than 100 objects, powerful multimedia presentations, and interactive experiences. It focuses on the war as a transformational event. Themes such as immigration and migration, racial conflict, women’s rights, labor struggles, challenges to civil liberties, and the meaning of citizenship are explored.
The Commonwealth and the Great War on display from February 17 to November 18, 2018, tells the stories of individual Virginians who carried the state’s proud military tradition to the battlefront during World War I. 100,000 of them served; 3,700 died. Many more were injured. Thirty-nine percent of the draftees in 1918 were African Americans. Hundreds of Virginia nurses and doctors followed soldiers to Europe. Military facilities established in Virginia became essential centers for the war effort. Thousands labored at home to produce vital war supplies, and families tended “Victory Gardens” and rationed food to “make the world safe for democracy.”
Contact : tschneider@virginiahistory.org
Category: Museums and Exhibitions
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