This two-day public special history event is back for 2023! Midway Village Museum will host The Great War: World War I, featuring dozens of reenactors portraying soldiers and civilians from the United States and Europe in the museum’s historic village.
Visitors engage in this unique historic, immersive experience with the opportunity to enter encampments, tour a reproduction 150-yard trench system, and watch narrated battle reenactments. Reenactors will be portraying soldiers from the US, Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Greece, Turkey and even Ireland.
Visit encampments and see WWI uniforms, memorabilia, weapons and equipment including:
- a Russian armored car
- a replica WWI era tank
Learn about :
- Camp Grant
- Trench Warfare and tour a replica trench
- Blacksmithing
- Conscientious Objectors
- The American Homefront
- The 1918 Influenza Epidemic
- Knitting Spies
See military skirmishes reenacted! Shop sales vendors of military collectibles, reproductions and books.