The traveling exhibition is a carefully designed adaptation of the WCM’s permanent exhibition featuring 35-40 personal stories and objects (out of the growing collection of over 6,000 objects) complemented by a multimedia corner with oral history interviews and other multimedia contents.
The WCM’s traveling exhibition can run from 7 days to 12 months and may feature additional activities, such as panel discussions and peacebuilding workshops for children and youth.
The WCM’s collection is classified into over 40 categories, such as refugee experience, family relations, school and education, play, and personal loss. Careful curation of each exhibition, which also takes into account gender and age balance, enables visitors to understand the multilayered nature of this experience. Each exhibition reflects the complex consequences of war for children while also highlighting their resilience and creativity, making it a powerful tool for learning and inspiring empathy.
To learn more about bringing our traveling exhibition to your museum, gallery, library or other venue interested in hosting the exhibition, please contact us at info@warchildhood.org.
Examples of the Past WCM Traveling Exhibitions
May – August 2024
Traveling Exhibition in Seoul, South Korea
The War Childhood Museum’s traveling exhibition “Childhood Under Siege” at the Seoul Museum of History attracted over 100,000 visitors. Focused on the experiences of children during the Siege of Sarajevo, the exhibition also included objects and stories from WCM’s collection from other regions and marked the Museum’s first major exhibition outside Europe. Various lectures, workshops, and educational materials were offered to visitors throughout the exhibition.
April 2022
Traveling Exhibition in Prishtina, Kosovo
The War Childhood Museum’s traveling exhibition at the National Gallery of Kosovo featured personal stories, belongings, and video testimonies from children affected by conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine, Palestine, and Afghanistan. It attracted significant public interest, drawing visits from Kosovo’s prime minister, other government officials, as well as students and universities.
March — April 2022
Traveling Exhibition in Belgrade, Serbia
The War Childhood Museum held an exhibition in Belgrade at the Endžio HAB, featuring stories, belongings, and video testimonies from children affected by war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia, and Ukraine. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with YIHR Serbia.
The War Childhood Museum Pop-up Exhibitions
With an aim to engage and connect with wider audience and outside of a traditional museum or gallery spaces, the WCM team designs and curates pop-up exhibitions for both, indoors and outdoors venues.
The pop-up exhibitions may come in different formats, depending on the occasion or venue interested in hosting the exhibition, and may last from one day to a month. Some of our past pop-up exhibitions featured posters of personal objects and accompanied stories of children whose lives have been affected by an armed conflict, whereas on other occasions improvised display stands allowed us to display artifacts from our collection physically.
While War Childhood Museum’s pop-up exhibitions may vary in focus, their core mission remains the same: to provide a broader audience with the opportunity to learn about and reflect on the complexities of childhood affected by armed conflict.
To learn more about bringing our traveling exhibition to your museum, gallery, library or other venue interested in hosting the exhibition, please contact us at info@warchildhood.org.
Examples of the Past WCM Pop-Up Exhibitions
June 2022
LISTEN Exhibition in Strasbourg, France
In June 2022, the War Childhood Museum opened the LISTEN exhibition at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. The exhibition highlighted the museum’s Ukraine collection and the ongoing documentation efforts by WCM’s Kyiv office, alongside wartime and refugee experiences of children from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Syria, and Afghanistan. Hosted by the CoE Commissioner for Human Rights, it was visited by high officials, including the President of the CoE Parliamentary Assembly, the King of the Netherlands, the President of Greece, foreign ministers, and parliament members from numerous European countries.
May 2022
Pop-Up Exhibition in Järfälla, Sweden
The WCM’s pop-up exhibition in Järfälla presented stories of children from Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, thus showcasing wartime and refugee experiences connected to five different wars. The exhibition was part of a series of events organized by the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Järfälla, titled “NoMoreWar!”. The opening alone attracted over 200 visitors.
July — August 2020
#ChildrenAndGenocide Exhibition in Sarajevo, BiH
#ChildrenAndGenocide pop-up exhibition featured a series of portraits and personal stories chronicling the experiences of people whose childhoods were marked by the Srebrenica genocide. The exhibition was preceded by an online campaign of the same name and is produced in cooperation with Humans of Amsterdam and Srebrenica Memorial Center. Read more about Children and Srebrenica Genocide research project.
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