Exhibitions – Page 2 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 21, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Biscuit based art exhibition by Kingsley Baird, Museum of the Great War, France

A new temporary art exhibition by Kingsley Baird, entitled ‘Tomb’, will see a tomb in honour of those who fell at the Battle of the Somme made of biscuits, at the Museum of the Great War, France.

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April 3, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Biscuit based art exhibition by Kingsley Baird, Museum of the Great War, France

A new temporary art exhibition by Kingsley Baird, entitled 'Tomb', will see a tomb in honour of those who fell at the Battle of the Somme made of biscuits, at the Museum of the Great War, France.

May 15, 2013 CN Editorial Team

British Heritage Lottery Fund launches ‘First World War: then and now’ grants programme

The Heritage Lottery Fund is launching a £6 million small grants fund to help communities mark the Centenary of the First World War.

May 20, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Australian War Memorial Centenary digitisation project ‘ANZAC Connections’ underway

The Australian War Memorial is currently undertaking a digitisation project “to create a comprehensive digital archive of the ANZACs and their deeds, and of the wider Australian experience of war”.

June 9, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Director of the Australian War Memorial urges Australians to utilise Centenary exhibitions in Canberra

The Canberra Times reports that the Director of the Australian War Memorial, Brendan Nelson, has called on Australians to utilise the Centenary exhibitions which will be on display in Canberra.

June 21, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s blood stained shirt to go on display in Vienna

The shirt Archduke Franz Ferdinand was wearing on the day he was assassinated on June 28th 1914, will go on display at the Austrian Military Museum in Vienna.

July 3, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Northumberland Fusiliers Museum receives £300,000 grant from Heritage Lottery Fund for Centenary

Heritage Lottery Fund has granted the Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland, England, £300,000 to help it mark the Centenary of the First World War.

July 3, 2013 CN Editorial Team

World War I Voices Project will create an “Auditory Cenotaph” using recordings of First World War Commonwealth PoW voices

South West Artwork is to create a sound archive which will allow people to hear the voices of British & Commonwealth PoWs.

July 7, 2013 CN Editorial Team

International Peace Bureau ‘Making Peace’ photographic exhibition to mark Centenary of the First World War

The International Peace Bureau has announced that it will be marking the Centenary with showings of its Making Peace photographic exhibition.

July 9, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Heritage Lottery Fund provides £1.1 million to York Castle Museum for ‘1914: When the World Changed Forever’

The BBC reports that Heritage Lottery Fund has provided York Castle Museum, England, with a £1.1 million grant for an exhibtion about the outbreak of the First World War.