Museums – Page 35 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 28, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Side by Side’ – America’s WWI war effort remembered in Britain

Patrick Gregory reports on the opening of a new exhibition at the American Museum in Britain commemorating US involvement in the First World War.

April 1, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Royal Air Force founded

The world’s first independent air force was created on 1 April 1918, with the merger of Britain’s Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service into the RAF.

April 5, 2018 CN Editorial Team

15,000 visitors at RAF Museum for Royal Air Force Centenary

The RAF Museum in London says its Easter weekend of events marking the 100th birthday of the Royal Air Force drew more than 15,000 visitors.

April 25, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Battle for the North Sea’ exhibition in Flanders unites 11 Victoria Crosses

Centenary News tours a new exhibition in Bruges, bringing together all the Zeebrugge Raid Victoria Crosses – and highlighting both sides of the WW1 struggle between Flanders -based German submarines and Britain’s Royal Navy.

May 3, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Stars & Stripes return to Islay, 100 years on

An American flag made by Scottish islanders to honour US soldiers of the Great War who perished in a U-boat attack has travelled back to Islay for international commemorations taking place on Friday (May 4).

May 10, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Flanders exhibitions, ‘1918 – The Final Offensive’

Three exhibitions now under way in Zonnebeke, Heuvelland and Waregem highlight different aspects of the last year of the First World War in Flanders.

June 21, 2018 CN Editorial Team

To End All Wars? – Legacies of WW1 conference in Ypres, August 2018

Leading historians will discuss the aftermath and commemorative legacies of the First World War at a conference in Ypres from August 22-25.

July 5, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Compiègne centenary appeal for historic Armistice memorial

The city of Compiègne is making a crowdfunding appeal to renovate La Dalle Sacrée, the memorial at the site of the ceasefire agreement ending the Great War on 11 November 1918.

July 22, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 days remembering Wilfred Owen in Shropshire

Wide-ranging commemorations for the life and work of the British First World War poet and soldier Wilfred Owen have been announced in the county of his birth.

July 26, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Making a New World’ – IWM opens final WW1 Centenary programme

A season of events exploring ‘how the First World War has shaped today’s society’ is starting at Imperial War Museums with Lest We Forget? – an exhibition at IWM North, Manchester.