Exhibition: Bearing the Torch

Bearing the Torch: the American Hospital of Paris in the First World War, a traveling exhibition of panels, examines the hospital’s remarkable role running a 600-bed military hospital in a school building in Neuilly. Before the U.S. entry into the war in 1917, thousands of Americans came to France to serve a cause they called humanity. Some were doctors and nurses, many others were college students who volunteered as ambulance drivers and social workers. They brought clothes and medicine, ambulances and airplanes, but most of all, they brought helping hands to a country in deep need. History may not remember them, but France has never forgotten. Opened in April 2017.