Exhibitions – Page 21 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Rupert Brooke exhibition opens in Skyros, Greece

'Rupert Brooke on Skyros: and Aegean corner of a foreign field' has opened on the Greek island of Skyros to commemorate the anniversary of the poet's death in 1915.

End Date: 01 Sep 2015

April 27, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘Gallipoli: from the Depths to the Trenches’ – exhibition in Istanbul

An exhibition marking the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign, curated by Turkish documentary maker Sava Karaka, runs at the Isbank Museum, Istanbul, until August 15th 2015.

April 28, 2015 CN Editorial Team

WW1 flight pioneer’s office ‘reopens’ at RAF Museum

The office of British aviation pioneer Claude Grahame-White has been meticulously recreated by the Royal Air Force Museum, using a sole surviving photo from 1915.

April 30, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Lusitania Centenary: Historic disaster photos on show in Cobh, Ireland

More than 60 photographs capturing the aftermath of the Lusitania disaster are displayed in the Irish port of Cobh, as it prepares for commemorations next week marking the centenary of the British liner’s sinking by a German submarine.

May 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘Sand and Snow: Global War 1915’ exhibition opens in United States

"The special exhibition Sand to Snow: Global War 1915 examines the vast reach of this worldwide conflict, and runs from May 2015 – April 2016 at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri."

End Date: 30 Apr 2016

June 15, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Auckland War Memorial Museum creates community lead online cenotaph

Auckland War Memorial Museum is leading a community driven online cenotaph to commemorate those from the New Zealand province who served in the First World War.

July 8, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Somme museum explores legacy of pioneering Great War plastic surgery

Surgical techniques pioneered during the First World War to reconstruct faces shattered by injury are explored in a new exhibition at France’s Museum of the Great War in Péronne.

July 13, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Budapest exhibition opens for Great War Centenary

Hungary’s role in the First World War is explored in a Centenary exhibition which has opened in Budapest.

July 26, 2015 CN Editorial Team

£4.89 million awarded to RAF Museum for Royal Air Force Centenary

Britain’s RAF Museum has been awarded a lottery grant of almost £5million to take forward the next phase of its centenary programme, “The First 100 Years”.

July 30, 2015 CN Editorial Team

First World War ‘sound mirrors’ restored on White Cliffs of Dover

Two First World War sound mirrors can now be seen on Engand’s Kent coast as part of a newly-opened National Trust site exploring Second World War tunnels.