Encounters | National WWI Museum and Memorial
Through cutting-edge visual storytelling, visitors meet 16 individuals and hear their intimate first-person accounts crafted from diaries, letters and photos. Encounters invites you to hear and see real, first-hand narratives of not just the soldier, but the nurse, child, and others who were impacted by global conflict.
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Through cutting-edge visual storytelling, visitors meet 16 individuals and hear their intimate first-person accounts crafted from diaries, letters and photos, including:
- Allied and Central Power combat soldiers living through the hell of the Western Front and patrolling the seas in submarines
- British colonial Indian soldiers contemplating death and rebelling against the futility of war
- women working in munitions factories to support the war effort
- dissenters arrested and tried for protesting involvement in the war
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Organization:
National WWI Museum and MemorialLocation:
2 Memorial Drive
Kansas City, MO, 64108United States
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Phone:
816-888-8100Contact name:
Mike Vietti
Email address:
Dates:
Time:
10 am - 5 pm
Ages
Adults & kids together Adults without kidsWeb Service