New exhibit details CMU in WWI
Graduate students will reveal stories of Central Michigan University's involvement in World War I at 4 p.m. Thursday. in the Bohannon Schoolhouse on Franklin Street. Sacrifice and Service: The WWI Experience will present the work of graduate students who have spent the semester researching artifacts in the Museum of Cultural and Natural History.
"We found the artifacts and put a list together, and began educating ourselves to find cases," said temporary instructor Keith Gill, who worked with graduates to assemble the exhibit in MST 750: Seminar in Advanced Exhibit Design and Construction.
Eight "cases" will be presented, many of them charting the impact of World War I on CMU. Topics include an influenza outbreak, students who were killed in action, trench warfare and the technology of the war.
Although Gill is technically the curator of the exhibit, the students had to become curators themselves to get their projects ready for the opening.
"They're learning how to design and mount the exhibit, and they each had to become their own researcher, writer, presenter and editor on their own cases," Gill said.
