Army Quartermaster Museum

Army Quartermaster Museum

infobox Museum
name= United States Army Quartermaster Museum


established= 1957
location= 1201 22nd Street, Fort Lee, Virginia, USA
visitors= 70,000Cite web|url=http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/themuseum.htm|title=About the Museum|accessdate=2008-03-31|publisher=Army Quartermaster Museum]
director=
website= [http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/ United States Army Quartermaster Museum]
The United States Army Quartermaster Museum located at Fort Lee, Virginia, is one of a number of small museums in the Commonwealth of Virginia.Cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAD9055D2604F86&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=It's Nutty but this Museum Spreads Peanut Lore|accessdate=2008-03-31|year=1992-12-06|author=Bob Dart|work=The Austin American-Statesman] The museum's aim is to preserve and exhibit the history of the Quartermaster Corps, which was formed in 1775 and to date it has collected more than 20,000 items.Cite web|url=http://www.quartermaster.army.mil/oqmg/professional_bulletin/2005/Spring05/Treasures%20of%20the%20Quartermaster%20Museum,%2050%20Years%20of%20Collecting%20for%20the%20Corps.htm|title=Treasures of the Quartermaster Museum, 50 Years of Collecting for the Corps|accessdate=2008-03-31|publisher=US Army Quartermaster Museum|year=2005|author=Tim O'Gorman|work=Quartermaster Professional Bulletin] The Museum also serves the Quartermaster Center and School as a classroom for the teaching of history, educating more than 16,000 soldiers, non-commissioned officers, warrant officers, and officers a year.Cite web|url=https://www.denix.osd.mil/portal/page/portal/denix/environment/CR/MilitaryMuseums/Virginia|title=U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum: Purpose and Function|accessdate=2008-03-31|publisher=Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Installations and Environment|work=DENIX]

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External links

* [http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/ Official web site]


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