Museums – Page 28 – First World War Centenary News Archive

June 17, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Canadian War Museum focus on WW1 legacy in Newfoundland & Labrador

Photo exhibitions launched at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, ahead of the Battle of the Somme Centenary, highlight the impact of the First World War on Newfoundland and Labrador.

June 27, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Australia’s first Western Front VC displayed in Canberra

The Australian War Memorial is displaying the medals of Private William ‘Bill’ Jackson VC as part of centenary commemorations marking Australia’s role on the Western Front.

June 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Wounded’ – Somme Centenary exhibition explores WW1 medical advances

Centenary News visits a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London, highlighting the medical challenges posed by the advent of industrialised warfare in 1914-18.

June 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Painting the Somme – Centenary exhibition in London

Artist Hughie O'Donoghue talks to Patrick Gregory about 'Seven Halts on the Somme' – a special display of his paintings at Leighton House Museum, London.

June 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Painting the Somme – Centenary exhibition in London

Artist Hughie O’Donoghue talks to Patrick Gregory about ‘Seven Halts on the Somme’ – a special display of his paintings at Leighton House Museum, London.

Author: Patrick Gregory

July 15, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Ambulance Trains’ – UK rail museum explores WW1 hospitals on wheels

A new exhibition focussing on the ambulance trains used to transport wounded First World War soldiers has opened at Britain’s National Railway Museum in York.

August 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Surviving HMS Falmouth naval boat to be restored at Portsmouth

A ship’s boat from the British cruiser HMS Falmouth, torpedoed in the North Sea in August 1916, has arrived at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard for restoration.

August 25, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Understanding the Great War’ – education resource launched in US

The United States WWI Centennial Commission and America’s National World War I Museum & Memorial have teamed up to create a new online teaching resource aimed at increasing awareness of the Great War.

September 9, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘North Carolina & World War I’ – US Centennial exhibition in 2017

A multimedia exhibition marking the centennial of America’s entry into the First World War opens at the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, in April next year.

September 15, 2016 CN Editorial Team

WW1 Tank Centenary – Tank display marks historic 1916 attack

100 years after the first tanks rolled into action, a replica First World War British tank took up positions in the heart of London for the September 15 Centenary.