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A traveling exhibit that remembers the witness of peace-minded people against the First World War 1914-1918. This witness included men and women, religious believers and secular humanitarians, political protesters and sectarian separatists. They resisted U.S. involvement in the
war, the enactment of military conscription, the war bond drives, and the denial of freedom of speech under the Espionage and Sedition Acts. For this resistance many suffered community humiliation, federal imprisonment, and mob violence at the hands of a war-crusading American
public. This exhibit lifts up the prophetic insights and the personal courage of World War I peace protesters, and suggests parallels to the culture of war and violence in our world today.
The exhibit is organized in ten themes that encourage exploration and reflection. The theme modules surround a recreation of an Alcatraz Prison cell, the site where Hutterite conscientious objectors were punished for refusing military participation. Text and quotes provide interpretation and raise provocative questions for viewers while large-scale graphics and photomurals immerse visitors in the historical experience of witnessing for peace during “total war.”
A collaborative team of historians and museum professionals developed Voices of Conscience at Kauffman Museum. The exhibit is based on Kauffman Museum’s 30 years of experience in designing and building award-winning projects with a specific focus on innovative approaches to traveling exhibits.
Exhibit Support
Kauffman Museum Association
Kansas Humanities Council
Rainbow Mennonite Church, Kansas City, KS and the Schowalter Foundation
Remembering Muted Voices Symposium: Plough Publishing, Hutterian Communities, Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies Center at Tabor College
Schedule: Voices of Conscience premiered at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City during the “Remembering Muted Voices: Conscience, Dissent, Resistance and Civil Liberties in World War I
through Today” Symposium, October 19-22, 2017.
Organizations interested in hosting the exhibit can contact Chuck Regier, Curator of Exhibits or David Kreider, Museum Technician
Upcoming venues • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Heritage Hall Museum & Archives, Freeman, SD,
March 18 - April 26, 2020
Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Tabor College, Hillsboro, KS, April 30- May 24, 2020
Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma, KS, March 21- May 2, 2021
Past venues • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Mennonite Heritage Village, Steinbach, MB, November 10-December 20, 2019
Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, MB, September 20-November 9, 2019
Henderson Mennonite Heritage Park, Henderson, NE, July 10, 2019 - September 15, 2019
Dacota Prairie Museum, Aberdeen SD, May 25 - July 7, 2019
Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX, April 8 - May 20, 2019
Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH, February 17-March 31, 2019
Mennonite Heritage Center, Harleysville, PA, November 23, 2018 -February 10, 2019
Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA, October 1 - November 17, 2018
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society in cooperation with Landis Homes, August 19 - September 26, 2018
Church of the Brethren Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio July 4-8, 2018
Brethren Heritage Center, Brookville, OH, July 10-August 12, 2018
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA, April 13 - June 22, 2018
Goshen College, Goshen, IN, February 16 - April 8, 2018
Kauffman Museum, November 1, 2017- January 21, 2018
Rainbow Mennonite Church, Kansas City, KS, October 24-29, 2017
National World War I Museum, Kansas City, MO, October 19-21, 2017
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