World War One Museum Collages

There's a pattern I've noticed in visiting World War One museums over the years.  Their curators seem to like to put together displays that have enormous concentrations of stuff–usually somewhat related, sometimes not—where the intention is clearly not to allow a full appreciate ever single item. Apparently, these are attempts to create a broad, emotional response from the visitor, something on the order of: This is what that war was about — fell it!".   I've decided to  use the term "collage" for these presentations. Collages were a product of the Dada Movement of the First World War period, in which the artists tried to make some original, radical statement by combining ordinary materials.  Anyway, here are a few examples of what I'm thinking about.  All the images can be enlarged by clicking on them. MH 

Somme 1916 Museum, Albert

Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Rovereto

In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres

Mémorial de Verdun

National WWI Museum, Kansas City

Historial de la Grande Guerra, Péronne

Guards Museum, London