Today the Avondale United Methodist Church book club toured the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, MO.
We decided to go as a follow up to the reading of Last of the Doughboys, a book about interviews done with the last surviving veterans of World War I. We received a tour group tour of the museum.
The museum is well laid out, with a multitude of artifacts, murals, and interactive displays.
The opening video started with the events that led up to the war, and much of the museum covered the period prior to America’s entrance into the war.
The war was a pivotal moment, both socially, politically, technologically, economically, and the museum preserves and communicates forward today those messages, a century after that struggle began.
After touring the museum, we went above ground and toured the Liberty Memorial, and went up the spire to see the panorama of the Kansas City skyline from its summit 217 feet above ground. That is taller than the 167 feet of Niagara Falls or the 168 feet 7 inches of the Verrucht water slide at Schlitterbahn’s Water Park in nearby Kansas City, KS.
We rode up via elevator — the stair are apparently only used for emergencies — though we did have to climb the last 45 steps after getting off the elevator. It is not ADA accessible.
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