Flanders Commemorative Garden
When: 17-04-2017 until 31-12-2018
Where: Australian War Memorial
In 2009, the Flemish and Australian Governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation between Australia and Belgium to mark the Centenary of the First World War. As part of this cooperation, the Menin Gate Lions will be loaned to Ieper from mid-April to November 2017. The Flemish Government is partnering with the Memorial to build a garden at the Memorial in Canberra with soil from First World War battlefields in Belgium.
Tinker tailor: WW1 military collections from German New Guinea
When: 31-07-2016 until 31-12-2018
Where: South Australian Museum
From July 2016 – check SA Museum for confirmed opening/closing dates
Tinker tailor investigates the collections of five Australian soldiers who were part of the Australian administration in German New Guinea during World War 1. While in New Guinea these soldiers were intrigued by the local culture and acquired a number of New Guinea artefacts that later found their way into the collections of the South Australian Museum.
Highlights of these collections will be displayed in the Pacific Cultures Gallery to acknowledge the connection between the Museum’s collections and World War 1 during the Great War’s 100th anniversary.
Image: The South Australian contingent of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force that left Adelaide in November 1914.
Anzac Centenary Print Portfolio
When: 01-12-2015 until 31-12-2018
Where: Australian War Memorial
To mark the centenary of the First World War, the Australian War Memorial commissioned the Anzac Centenary Print Portfolio. Featuring work by five Australian and five New Zealand artists, the portfolio explores the Anzac legacy and commemoration in a contemporary context.
Spirit of Anzac Centenary Experience
When: 01-09-2015 until 31-12-2018
Where: Australian War Memorial
The Australian Government and the Australian War Memorial, supported by the Commonwealth Bank and Telstra are bringing the Spirit of Anzac Centenary Experience to communities across Australia – this will be the flagship community event of the Australian Government’s Anzac Centenary national programme.
The Spirit of Anzac Centenary Experience is a travelling exhibition that tells the story of Australia’s involvement in the First World War, and the ensuing Century of Service of Australia’s armed forces in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations in which Australia has been involved. It will use an arresting mix of artefacts, audio and film to engage visitors.
A key feature of the experience will be the curated ‘local stories’ zone that will be part of the exhibition. These zones will be created in close collaboration with local communities and will contribute to the legacy for each region.
A Piece of Gallipoli
When: 15-06-2015 until 31-12-2018
Where: Queensland Museum Network
A small exhibition at the Queensland Museum, South Bank exploring the notion of souveniring as a response to the ‘adventure’ of wartime in exotic locations. A Piece of Gallipoli is a small display in the Museum’s Discovery Centre highlighting Australians’ attachment to the place and the legend.
Ever since the first Anzacs landed on its shores in April 1915, Australians have been taking souvenirs home with them. The first were pebbles and as the war progressed, shrapnel, spent shells and other items related to the War were collected. One hundred years later, manufactured souvenirs provide everybody with the opportunity to own a piece of Gallipoli.
He Pou Aroha – Community Cenotaph
When: 01-05-2015 until 31-12-2018
Where: Auckland War Memorial Museum
In 2015 Auckland War Memorial Museum will launch a mobile unit which will tour around the Auckland region visiting community centres, libraries, local RSAs and community events. Inside the unit people will be able to explore the Online Cenotaph Database and digitise their own items such as photographs, documents and artefacts straight to the database records. The programme launches officially in May and will continue for the next four years.
Commemorative Tapestry Commission
When: 30-04-2015 until 31-12-2018
Where: Australian War Memorial
In November 2014 the Australian Tapestry Workshop Director, Antonia Syme and Australian War Memorial Director, Dr Brendan Nelson announced the commencement of a significant new First World War commemorative tapestry commission based on a painting by Australian artist, Imants Tillers (b.1950) for the Australian War Memorial.
More than a name – Cenotaph
When: 01-02-2015 until 31-12-2018
Where: Auckland War Memorial Museum
The Auckland War Memorial Museum has asked the public to help in telling the stories of those who served in the First World War. They have been asked to select a name from the Memorial’s WWI Hall of Memories, Online Cenotaph, local memorial or a family member who served in WWI, research the story and share it. Stories will be published on the museum website to become part of the More than a Name archive and Online Cenotaph.
Commemorative Crosses Project
When: 01-01-2015 until 31-12-2018
Where: Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial plans to draw on the commemorative experiences of schoolchildren visiting the Memorial by capturing, in the students’ own words, their individual reflections on those who have sacrificed their lives in war and other conflicts. These thoughts will take the form of short messages on small wooden crosses, which the Memorial will arrange to be laid throughout the Centenary period on war graves and memorials.
South Australia’s war 1914-1918
When: 01-01-2015 until 31-12-2018
Where: History SA
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia, the South Australian Museum and the Art Gallery of South Australia, History SA is researching the SA perspective on WWI. Through a vast array of primary source material from service personnel and others, the project will recount the complex web of events from a local perspective.
Indigenous Commemoration
When: 01-01-2015 until 31-12-2018
Where: Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial has a number of Indigenous projects planned throughout the centenary period including recording the Indigenous personnel who served in WWI, and their stories in the new galleries; collaborating on the Serving Our Country project, a history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service in the ADF; and providing input to a number of related documentaries and local commemorations.
Australians at the Great War
When: 01-01-2015 until 31-12-2018
Where: Australian War Memorial
When war broke out in August 1914, Australia immediately answered the call. In all, more than 350,000 Australians – all of them volunteers – went off to serve on foreign soil, in the air, or on far-off seas. But the cost of victory was high. More than 60,000 failed to return, having either died of wounds, been killed in battle, or succumbed to illness. Many of those who survived would continue to bear mental and physical injuries for the rest of their lives.
This publication, written by Lambert Gallipoli Fellow and Australian War Memorial Senior Historian Peter Burness, tells the stories of these men and women.
Endurance and the First World War
When: 01-01-2015 until 31-12-2018
Where: Canterbury Museum
A new publication edited by David Monger, Sarah Murray and Katie Pickles. Endurance was an inherent part of the First World War. The chapters in this collection explore the concept in New Zealand and Australia. Researchers from a range of backgrounds and disciplines address what it meant to endure the First World War, and how the war endured in following years. The editors include history staff from the University of Cambridge and Canterbury Museum.
Australia in the Great War: The Anzacs, Their Story, Our Pride
When: 01-12-2014 until 31-12-2020
Where: Australian War Memorial
Australia in the Great War is the new permanent exhibition on display in the First World War Galleries of the Australian War Memorial.
The exhibition presents the story of Australia in the First World War chronologically, covering all major theatres of operations: Gallipoli; the Western Front; Sinai and Palestine; and the war at sea. The events taking place on the home front and the immediate and enduring legacy of the war are also included.
Read more about Australia in the Great War: The Anzacs, Their Story, Our Pride.
National Anzac Centre Albany
When: 01-11-2014 until 31-12-2018
Where: Western Australian Museum
The National Anzac Centre, opened on 2 November 2014, is Australia’s foremost museum dedicated solely to honouring the Anzacs of the First World War. Marking the site where over 41,000 Australians and New Zealanders left Australia bound for the war, the Centre offers visitors a deeply personal connection with the Anzac legend revealed through interactive multimedia displays, unique artefacts, rare images and film, and audio commentary.
The interpretation within the Anzac Centre was coordinated by the Western Australian Museum.
Anzac Treasures: The Gallipoli Collection of the Australian War Memorial
When: 14-10-2014 until 31-12-2018
Where: Australian War Memorial
A book written by Dr Peter Pedersen (Acting Assistant Director, Australian War Memorial), Anzac treasures tells the Anzac story and evokes what Australians endured on Gallipoli as never before – through the priceless objects, photographs, works of art, diaries, and documents in the Australian War Memorial’s collection.
Read more about Anzac Treasures: The Gallipoli Collection of the Australian War Memorial.
Canterbury 100 Website
When: 11-10-2014 until 31-12-2018
Where: Canterbury Museum
Canterbury 100 is a collaborative project, co-ordinated by the region’s major cultural and heritage institutions, telling the story and experiences of Canterbury people during the First World War.
Canterbury residents are encouraged to contribute personal stories, photographs, diaries and papers, and artefacts from people in Canterbury relating to the First World War to present in a regional exhibition and preserved in a digital archive.
Canterbury Stories – Remembering the First World War
When: 12-09-2014 until 30-11-2018
Where: Canterbury Museum
Showing at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, the exhibition provides a Canterbury-focused insight into WWI through the stories of those who experienced it – not only the soldiers and nurses on the front line but also the men, women and children who remained on the ‘Home Front’.
The exhibition is part of the Canterbury 100 collaborative project which is co-ordinated by the region’s major cultural and heritage institutions including Canterbury Museum.
Read more about Canterbury Stories – Remembering the First World War.
WWI: Love and Sorrow
When: 30-08-2014 until 31-12-2018
Where: Museum Victoria
Melbourne Museum’s new exhibition WWI: Love & Sorrow tells the century-old personal stories of war with 21st century technology. The exhibition allows visitors to experience one of the world’s most destructive conflicts through the eyes of eight real-life individuals, including a Victorian mother awaiting the return of her son; Aboriginal brothers from Orbost fighting on the Western Front; and a Jewish German soldier on the other side of that same front.
Holding On to Home: NZ Stories and Objects for the First World War
When: 22-08-2014 until 31-12-2018
Where: Museum Of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
One designer, two authors, nine chapters, 28 library, archive and museum collections, and more than 300 illustrations: these are some of the ingredients that have gone into Holding on to Home: New Zealand Stories and Objects for the First World War. The book, written by Kate Hunter and Kirstie Ross, was published by Te Papa Press on 21 August 2014.
Read more about Holding On to Home: NZ Stories and Objects for the First World War.
A camera on Gallipoli
When: 07-08-2014 until 31-12-2018
Where: Australian War Memorial
In 1915 soldier and surgeon Sir Charles Ryan captured the Australians’ experience on Gallipoli via a series of candid photographs. These images take us behind the stirring accounts of battle being reported at home to reveal the dry, forbidding landscape, tired troops in the trenches, squalid dug-outs, and the horrendous task of burying the dead.
The exhibition will tour to a range of venues around Australia. See Tour Schedule here.
Roll of Honour soundscape
When: 04-08-2014 until 31-12-2018
Where: Australian War Memorial
The Roll of Honour Soundscape project began in 2014 with groups of primary school students from across Australia recording the names and ages of some of the 62,000 Australians who died in service during the First World War.
The recordings are currently playing in the Memorial’s First World War cloisters. It is the Memorial’s goal to collect recordings of all 62,000 names that appear on the First World War Roll of Honour.
The Memorial and Google Australia have now developed an online recording application, Remember me, which will allow all primary schools to participate in the project from their classrooms.
Anzac Connections
When: 01-01-2014 until 31-12-2018
Where: Australian War Memorial
The Anzac Connections project is a major Australian War Memorial web development project which will not only progressively deliver new, digitised collections to the website, but aims to improve search and discovery on the site, and provide ways for people to interact with the collection. The project has been established to mark the 2015 centenary of the landing on Gallipoli. Visit the link below to explore the digitised collections.
Bravest of the Brave
When: 01-01-2014 until 31-12-2018
Where: History SA
A travelling exhibition telling the moving stories of the eight South Australians awarded the Victoria Cross in the First World War. The exhibition includes framed citations and replica sets of medals, including the VCs belonging to the men. The exhibition was produced as a partnership between History SA and Veterans SA.
Our Anzac Legacy
When: 01-01-2014 until 31-12-2018
Where: Queensland Museum Network
Scheduled for opening in 2018 at the Queensland Museum South Bank site, a new $14.3 million Queensland Remembers will feature an Anzac exhibition that explores the social legacies of World War One in Queensland including many things, no part of daily life, that were created in response to this devastating conflict.
The gallery will also become the permanent home of one of the world’s most significant war trophies – the A7V Sturmpanzerwagen armoured assault vehicle, Mephisto.