Museums – Page 24 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 28, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘An Oasis in a World Gone Crazy’ – London exhibition remembers Talbot House in WW1

Centenary News visits a new exhibition in London, paying tribute to ‘Tubby’ Clayton and Talbot House, the ‘home from home’ he created for British soldiers behind the lines in Belgium in 1915.

End Date: 08 Jan 2016

November 1, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘An Oasis in a World Gone Crazy’ – London exhibition remembers Talbot House in WW1

An exhibition in London pays tribute to 'Tubby' Clayton and Talbot House, the 'home from home' he created for British soldiers behind the lines in Belgium in 1915.

November 25, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Navy museum’s £25,000 appeal to restore sketch of teenage Victoria Cross sailor

Britain’s Royal Navy Museum has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise £25,000 for restoring a sketch of Jack Cornwell, the 16-year-old sailor posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross after the Battle of Jutland.

November 29, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News focus on new Lens 14-18 museum in France

Centenary News profiles Lens’ 14-18 – Centre d’Histoire Guerre et Paix, a museum opened in 2015 to remember all those who fought in Northern France during the Great War.

November 30, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Tower of London Poppies – 2016 UK display venues announced

The Tower of London poppy installations, Wave and Weeping Window, will next be displayed in Lincoln, Perth and Caernarfon, UK WW1 Centenary art commissioning body 14-18 NOW has announced.

December 5, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli warship draws 50,000th visitor

The restored Gallipoli gunboat, HMS M.33, has attracted 50,000 visitors since opening four months ago, the UK’s National Museum of the Royal Navy has announced.

December 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

From Scapa Flow to Portsmouth – Jutland guns to feature at 2016 centenary exhibition

Guns that saw action at the Battle of Jutland will be among exhibits at the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s centenary exhibition, opening in May 2016.

December 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘Rearranging History’ – US exhibition pieces together story of giant WW1 painting

Missing fragments from a Great War masterpiece are back on view for the first time in decades at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, as CN contributor Patrick Gregory discovers.

Author: Patrick Gregory

December 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘Rearranging History’ – US exhibition pieces together story of giant WW1 painting

December 27, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Focus on Marmolada Grande Guerra: Italian museum remembering Alpine war

Centenary News profiles Marmolada Grande Guerra, a museum remembering Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops who fought in the ice and snow of the Dolomite Mountains.