Museums – Page 4 – First World War Centenary News Archive

May 15, 2013 CN Editorial Team

British Heritage Lottery Fund launches ‘First World War: then and now’ grants programme

The Heritage Lottery Fund is launching a £6 million small grants fund to help communities mark the Centenary of the First World War.

May 20, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Australian War Memorial Centenary digitisation project ‘ANZAC Connections’ underway

The Australian War Memorial is currently undertaking a digitisation project “to create a comprehensive digital archive of the ANZACs and their deeds, and of the wider Australian experience of war”.

May 23, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Australian War Memorial to sell “special range of promotional merchandise” for Centenary

The Canberra Times has reported that the Australian War Memorial will sell “promotional merchandise” during the Anzac Centenary.

May 28, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Director Peter Jackson to work with Te Papa Museum, New Zealand, to recreate Gallipoli trenches

Director Sir Peter Jackson and Creative Director of Weta Workshop, Sir Richard Taylor, are to work with New Zealand’s Te Papa Museum to recreate a ‘trench experience’ to mark the Centenary.

May 30, 2013 CN Editorial Team

What would have happened if Facebook existed during the First World War?

The Musée de la Grande Guerre is considering the role Facebook would have played in the First World War had it existed at the time, in order to engage with a younger audience about the conflict.

June 6, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Imperial War Museum’s Centenary Partnership reaches over 1,000 members from 26 countries

The Imperial War Museum has announced that its Centenary Partnership has significantly developed a year before the 100 year anniversary of the conflict begins.

June 9, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Director of the Australian War Memorial urges Australians to utilise Centenary exhibitions in Canberra

The Canberra Times reports that the Director of the Australian War Memorial, Brendan Nelson, has called on Australians to utilise the Centenary exhibitions which will be on display in Canberra.