Explore everything WWI

‘Tis the season for Mrs. Wilson’s holiday reception, featuring snacks and learning about the legacy of wartime winter and holiday traditions. All handcrafts and non-crafters welcome.

The Living History Volunteer Corps are onsite to share stories of how WWI soldiers and their families celebrated the winter holidays. Bring your curiosity and questions!

Along with concurrent ceremonies across the country, Wreaths Across America volunteers will lay wreaths on Memorial Courtyard to remember the fallen and honor those who serve.

It’s our holiday screening of the 2005 Oscar-nominated film “Joyeux Noël,” the story of the fictionalized account of the 1914 Christmas Truce between opposing soldiers on the Western Front. Museum Members, take advantage of exclusive pre-registration through Nov. 15!

Members, look to your email for a special holiday discount – good for onsite and online purchases – at the Museum Store. Not a member? Join today!

An exclusive conversation about the online exhibition "Charmed Soldiers," exploring the small but potent tokens symbolizing faith, hope and luck carried by WWI servicemembers.

Explore how 30 years of experience in the Philippines and American West influenced General John J. Pershing as a commander during the Great War.

You may know about the Navajo code talkers in WWII – but the first code talkers fought in WWI decades earlier. Dr. Bill Meadows explores recent discoveries in research.

Peek behind the lens of Vietnam veteran Chip Osborn, who led the U.S. Army Combat photographic team in telling stories from the rice paddies to the Vietnamese DMZ.

Join us for a reception and a panel discussion examining the myths and dispelling the rumors of veterans benefits, moderated by Lt. Col. (ret.) Nikki Dean.

Dr. David Murphy navigates how T.E. Lawrence, Arab leaders and many other British and French officers formed the basis of desert fighting during WWI which is still used today.

Dr. Scott Stephenson explores the failed 1923 “Beer Hall Putsch,” a coup attempt that severely tested Germany’s fledgling post-WWI Weimar Republic.

Rock out to a screening of Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton’s new film “The War To End All Wars – The Movie,” plus a reception and an exclusive recorded interview.