Museums – Page 16 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Enemy Aliens’ – Canadian War Museum explores internment during First World War

The story of thousands of people identified as 'enemy aliens' in Canada during the First World War is told in a special exhibition at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

October 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Exhibition: ‘World War I in Vienna – City Life in Photography and Graphic Art’

A new exhibition at the Wien Museum (Vienna Museum) in Austria will explore the impact of the First World War on the Home Front.

October 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Menin Gate Lions arrive at Canadian War Museum for ‘Fighting in Flanders’ exhibition

Australia’s Menin Gate Lions have been unveiled at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, where they will feature in a Centenary exhibition starting in November 2014.

October 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Menin Gate at Midnight’ – a personal view by Christopher J. Harvie

CN writer Christopher J. Harvie, discusses 'Menin Gate at Midnight', the William Longstaff painting on loan to the Canadian War Museum for 'Fighting in Flanders-Gas. Mud. Memory,' a Centenary exhibition starting in November 2014.

October 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Menin Gate at Midnight’ – a personal view by Christopher J. Harvie

CN writer Christopher J. Harvie, discusses ‘Menin Gate at Midnight’, the William Longstaff painting on loan to the Canadian War Museum for ‘Fighting in Flanders-Gas. Mud. Memory,’ a Centenary exhibition starting in November 2014.

Author: Christopher J. Harvie

October 21, 2014 CN Editorial Team

£11.5m UK lottery grant awarded to transform Battle of Jutland veteran HMS Caroline

The UK Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £11.5 million to the National Museum of the Royal Navy and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to conserve and restore HMS Caroline, the only survivor of the 1916 Battle of Jutland.

October 23, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Lange Max Museum opens in Koeklare, Belgium, this weekend

The Lange Max Museum, a new project focussing on a German aspect of the First World War, opens in Belgium this weekend, October 25/26th 2014.

October 24, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary focus for Imperial War Museum’s 2014 short film awards

Films drawing on the Imperial War Museum’s First World War archives are given prominent billing in IWM’s Short Film Festival, which opened on October 23rd 2014.

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October 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

New French museum remembers Australian & British war dead at Fromelles

Centenary News visits the Museum of the Battle of Fromelles, which tells the story of how the remains of 250 soldiers were recovered, almost a century after they fell in France.

Author: Peter Alhadeff

October 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

New French museum remembers Australian & British war dead at Fromelles

Centenary News visits the Museum of the Battle of Fromelles, which tells the story of how the remains of 250 soldiers were recovered, almost a century after they fell in France.