Museums – Page 22 – First World War Centenary News Archive

May 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Thousands who refused to take up arms remembered online by IWM

The names of 16,500 conscientious objectors have been added to the Imperial War Museum's 'Lives of the First World War' memorial website.

May 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Thousands who refused to take up arms remembered online by IWM

The names of 16,500 conscientious objectors have been added to the Imperial War Museum's 'Lives of the First World War' memorial website.

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 16, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Talbot House Rose blooms for Lord Mayor of London

A rose marking the Centenary of Talbot House, the First World War British soldiers’ club in Flanders, has been presented to the Lord Mayor of London.

June 30, 2015 CN Editorial Team

1915 UK Merchant Navy records go online for WW1 Centenary

The names of hundreds of thousands of seafarers who kept Britain supplied in 1915, the first full year of the Great War, can be searched online for the first time.

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 17, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli Centenary – last surviving British warship opens in Portsmouth August 6

A restored British warship from the Gallipoli campaign officially opens on August 6th 2015, the centenary of the last major Allied offensive at Gallipoli.

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 27, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Rare WW1 portraits by Hilda Rix Nicholas join Australian War Memorial collection

The Australian War Memorial has acquired a rare collection of portraits by an Australian artist whose work was inspired by her own loss during the First World War.