Virginia War Museum

Virginia War Museum

Infobox Museum
name= Virginia War Museum


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established= 1923
location= 9285 Warwick Boulevard
Newport News, Virginia
United States
type= Military History
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website= [http://www.warmuseum.org Virginia War Museum]

The Virginia War Museum is located in Huntington Park on Warwick Blvd., Newport News, Virginia. The museum contains exhibits on American military history from 1775 to the present.Virginia War Museum. "Virginia War Museum" brochure, Winter 2007.]

History

The Virginia War Museum was founded in 1923 by the Braxton-Perkins Post #25 of the American Legion as the American Legion Memorial Museum. The City of Newport News assumed overall administration of the Museum in the 1930's and it was known as the War Memorial Museum. In 1987, the Virginia War Museum Foundation was established by the Newport News City Council and the museum adopted its current name.

Collections

The Museum's collection includes, weapons, vehicles, tanks, cannons, artifacts, uniforms and posters from various periods of American history. Highlights of the Museum's collection include a section of the Berlin Wall and the outer wall from Dachau Concentration Camp. The museum also contains a research library with archieves.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.newport-news.org/attractions/vawarmuseum.htm Virginia War Museum official site]


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