Encounters | National WWI Museum and Memorial | Kids Out and About Kansas City

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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Location:

2 Memorial Drive
Kansas City, MO, 64108
United States

Phone:

816-888-8100
Contact name: 
Mike Vietti
Email address: 
Dates: 
07/11/2025
07/12/2025
07/13/2025
Time: 
10 am - 5 pm