Kansas City World War I museum opens new exhibit
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
A new exhibit at a Kansas City museum documents the destruction during World War I captured in a series of jarring and sometimes unidentifiable photographs and illustrations.
The National World War I Museum and Memorial opened the exhibit called “Devastated Lands” last month, the Kansas City Star reported. The collection of photographs and illustrations shows battered landscapes along the Western Front that look akin to an uninhabited planet, according to the museum.
One photo shows a bombed cathedral in Reims, France, where French kings were once crowned. An illustration depicts soldiers’ graves. Another photo shows a devastated street in Varennes, France.
Some of the photos were taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, though many are unknown with vague titles such as “Ruined town.”
The exhibit will run through December.