Opening on March 4, 2021, SOLDIER | ARTIST: Trench Art in World War II,  the newest special exhibit at The National WWII Museum, explores the military pastime known as “trench art”—the creation of art, souvenirs and tools out of discarded materials and the waste of war.

Join the National WWII Museum for a special virtual opening of its newest exhibit, SOLDIER | ARTIST: Trench Art in World War II.

A special installation enabling visitors to have a one-on-one “conversation” with a WWII concentration camp liberator will be on view at The National WWII Museum starting February 4.

Join us as we celebrate the Museum’s opening of Dimensions in Testimony: Liberator Alan Moskin, an interactive biography from USC Shoah Foundation, on display from February 4–September 11, 2021.

The special exhibit Ghost Army: The Combat Con Artists of World War II, on view in the Hall of Democracy’s Senator John Alario, Jr. Special Exhibition Hall from March 5, 2020 to January 31, 2021, and curated by the Museum’s James Linn, tells the story of the US Army’s 23rd Headquarters Special Troops and their deception operations across Europe through featured artifacts such as artwork, uniforms, an inflatable tank, and more.

Artist Guy de Montlaur drew inspiration from Bach. You will, too, at this hands-on event.

Artist Guy de Montlaur drew inspiration from Bach. You will, too, at this hands-on event.

Artist Guy de Montlaur drew inspiration from Bach. You will, too, at this hands-on event.

A new special exhibit explores a French artist's journey into and beyond war. 

When World War II began, entertainer Bob Hope’s career as a major movie star in film and radio was just beginning to take off, having worked his way from jobs as a newsboy, a butcher’s assistant, a shoe salesman, and an amateur boxer to scrape by in the early 1920s.