The Durham Museum will open its newest temporary exhibit, Fighting for the Good Life: Nebraskan Memories of WWI this Saturday.
The exhibit uses locally crowdsourced objects along with items loaned from established public history institutions to tell the story of Nebraskans during the Great War.
Jessica Brummer, Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the Durham, says the exhibit will contain everything from uniforms, weapons and photographs to soldiers’ journal pages, medals and propaganda from home.
Brummer says the items on view help paint a picture of all the different aspects of war. She says opening day will feature a variety of activities…
"We will be serving doughnuts. Doughnuts for doughboys were popular during World War I. There will be dog tag making for kids. We have a World War I-era violin performance. There will be a lot of activity going on surrounding the opening of seeing that new exhibition.”
Brummer says the exhibit is timed to celebrate the centennial of the Armistice. This November marks 100 years since the end of World War I.
The exhibit runs through January 28, 2019. For more information on the exhibition as well as special exhibit-related programming, the website is DurhamMuseum.org.