National WWI Museum and Memorial
America's official museum of the First World War, under a 217-foot memorial tower with views across the city.
- Open
- Closed most Mondays; check the website
- Price
- Paid; extra for the tower
- Time Needed
- 3 hours
- Address
- 2 Memorial Dr, Kansas City, MO 64108Google MapsApple Maps
- Getting There
- On the hill across from Union Station.
Why Go
You enter over a glass bridge above a field of 9,000 poppies, each one for 1,000 combatants who died. The collection, one of the largest of its kind in the world, includes a French tank, trench recreations and personal letters.
Ride the elevator up the Liberty Memorial Tower, dedicated in 1926, for the best view of the skyline.
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