Military Museums and Exhibitions

Photos from military museums and exhibitions, displaying artifacts, photographs, and historical narratives related to past conflicts.

RCMP Heritage Centre, Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Interior of the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights, Vilnius, Lithuania

Georgia, Columbus, National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus, display of Civil War-era iron-clad naval ships

Europe, England, United Kingdom, Manchester - The Imperial War Museum North, Salford Quays / IWM North

DF-ST-89-01167. Base: Maxwell Air Force Base State: Alabama (AL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

RCMP Heritage Centre, Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Jim Beutte (right) and Ira Hanna (left), volunteers docents at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, review a model of USS Newport News (CA-148) in the museums gallery. The museum, located on the second floor of the Nauticus campus in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia, is home to a robust volunteer corps which helps the museum connect visitors with naval history. (US Navy by Max Lonzanida/Released).

Showcase with WWI weapons of war. Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Casson Mann, 2015.

Two showcases with photo albums and five-enlarged photos on panels; Exhibition new acquisitions: photos of German soldiers in the Netherlands.

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Visitor Centre, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for British soldiers of the First World War, Poperinge, Belgium, Europe

Illuminated showcase with canon and WWI uniforms. Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Casson Mann, 2015.

Poland. Krakow. Gestapo Museum. Inside.

Gary Royse (right), a volunteer docent at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, fields questions from a visitor to their gallery on Friday, May 6, 2022. The museum, located on the second floor of the Nauticus campus in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia is home to a robust volunteer corps which helps the museum connect visitors with the naval history of the Hampton Roads, Virginia area.

Anne O. Brockett, architectural historian, District of Columbia Office of Planning/Office of Historic Preservation, and Christine Ames, Assistant District Archaeologist, Historical Society of Washington D.C., tour the Brig. Gen. West A. Hamilton Museum at the D.C. Armory, Feb. 14, 2024. The museum is dedicated to preserving the heritage of the District of Columbia National Guard and honoring the memories of the Soldiers and Airmen who, for over 200 years, have served the District of Columbia and the nation whenever called upon. The museum educates the public on the heritage of Capital Guardians, both in peace and in times of war. Air National Guard

Illuminated showcase and suspended military aircraft. Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Casson Mann, 2015.

Black & White photomurals and showcases. Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Casson Mann, 2015.

Micronesia, Mariana Islands, US Territory of Guam. War in the Pacific National Historic Park, War in the Pacific Museum. Educational museum display. Editorial Only.

France, Normandy, Basse-Normandie, Calvados, Caen Memorial

World war two military display at Littlecote House Hotel, Hungerford, Berkshire, England, UK

Lithuania, Vilnius, Museum of Genocide Victims, former KGB headquarters, display of World War Two partisans, guerilla fighters

Vietnam, Hanoi. Hoa Lo Prison Museum, Vietnam War-era, Hanoi Hilton, exhibit of US Prisoners of War

Musee De La Grande Guerre, Museum Of The Great War. Meaux, France, , France, Architect Christophe Lab

USA, Virginia, Triangle, National Museum of the Marine Corps, WW1-era battlefield gallery

Armenia, Yerevan. Yerevan Military Museum, army uniforms.

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, Mississippi, for touring, participation in events highlighting the restoration project--funded jointly by the National Park Service and the Friends of the Vicksburg National Military Park and Campaign, as part of the National Park Centennial Initiative--aimed at replacing interpretive battlefield markers and conserving the array of bronze statuary and stone monuments at the Civil War site. Joining Secretary Kempthorne for the events, including the unveiling of the first group of 22 metal markers identifying the specific locations of various Union and Confederate artillery batteries during the siege and defense of Vicksburg, were National Park Service Director Mary Bomar, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Chairman John Nau III, and country music star Trace Adkins, among other dignitaries.

Gary Royse (right), a volunteer docent at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, fields questions from a visitor to their gallery on Friday, May 6, 2022. The museum, located on the second floor of the Nauticus campus in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia is home to a robust volunteer corps which helps the museum connect visitors with the naval history of the Hampton Roads, Virginia area.

Photo shows Kazimiera Mika with the body of her sister, Museum of the Second World War, Muzeum II Wojny Swiatowej, Gdansk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, Europe

Museum of the Second World War, www.muzeum1939.pl, exhibition showing how Poland was divided between Germany and Soviet Union, Gdansk, Pomorze region, Pomorskie voivodeship, Poland, Europe

Showcases with photos and photo albums and two enlarged photos on panels; Exhibition new acquisitions: photos of German soldiers in the Netherlands.

The Corps Collection of the Command Troops. Conscripts during command training.

Yuma Territorial Prison museum displays

Europe, England, United Kingdom, Manchester - The Imperial War Museum North, Salford Quays / IWM North

Europe, England, United Kingdom, Manchester - The Imperial War Museum North, Salford Quays / IWM North

Cuba, Matanzas Province, Central Australia, Museo de la Comandancia, museum of the Cuban defense of the US CIA led 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion, military fatigues with anti-mosquito net

First World War One weapons and diorama of British tank commander in the Hooge Crater Museum at Zillebeke, Belgium, Europe

The Airborne and Special Operations Museum

South Carolina, Parris Island USMC Base, US Marines Museum Parris Island, interior

Two wall display streams with photos on both sides of an enlarged photo; Exhibition new acquisitions: photos of German soldiers in the Netherlands.

Y aeronautic exhibit, Apr. 1, 1944, Jerusalem, Israel

Rod Gainer, curator, Arlington National Cemetery, gives a tour of the Memorial Amphitheater Display Room to British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 18, 2023.

Permanent exhibition, "Fascination and Violence", exhibition space in the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Showcases with photos and photo albums and two enlarged photos on panels; Exhibition new acquisitions: photos of German soldiers in the Netherlands.

Tourists visiting the Fort de Loncin museum about the First World War One near Liege, Luik, Belgium, Europe

Sweden, Varmland, Karlskoga, Bofors Gun Works, owned by Alfred Nobel, model of the famous WW2-era Bofors Gun

Renae Fischer, 86th Airlift Wing vice director, tours the 70 years of Ramstein Air Base Exhibit at the Docu Center Ramstein, Germany, June 15, 2022. The Exhibit offered a variety of objects and photos highlighting seven decades of Ramstein AB history.

New Jersey National Guard Airmen and Soldiers, and New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs civilians in CATALIST Class 002 tour Washington Crossing State Park, New Jersey, June 11, 2022. Cultivating Agile and Transformational Air Guard Leaders through Inspiring and Structured Training (CATALIST) is a New Jersey Air National Guard program that focuses on strengthening the development of future military leaders.

France, Alsace, Natzweiler Struthof camp, museum

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Siege of the Toledo Alcazar (21 July to 28 September 1936). The military units based in Toledo joined the uprising of 18 July 1936, concentrating in the Alcazar. Colonel Jose Moscardo Ituarte, Military Commander of the city, took command of them, resisting a seventy-day siege. Office used by Colonel Moscardo during the siege, from which he held the last telephone conversation with his son Luis on 23 July, in which the chief of the Militia told him that his son was being held hostage and gave him ten minutes to surrender. Moscardo did not surrender. Luis was shot on 23 August along with other prisoners from the prison. Detail of furniture. Army Museum. Toledo, Spain.

Cuba, Sancti Spiritus Province, Trinidad, Museo Nacional de la Lucha Contra Bandidos, national museum of the fight against bandits, weapons

Gary Royse (left), a volunteer docent at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, fields questions from a visitor to their gallery on Friday, May 6, 2022. The museum, located on the second floor of the Nauticus campus in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia is home to a robust volunteer corps which helps the museum connect visitors with the naval history of the Hampton Roads, Virginia area.

030402-F-0007M-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mcguire Air Force Base State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: Air Mobility Command

Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife Island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Plaza de Espana, the underground Castillo de San Cristobal fortress-museum, The cannon El Tigre that blew off British Admiral Nelson's arm during the battle of Santa Cruz in 1797

Gary Royse (right), a volunteer docent at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, fields questions from a visitor to their gallery on Friday, May 6, 2022. The museum, located on the second floor of the Nauticus campus in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia is home to a robust volunteer corps which helps the museum connect visitors with the naval history of the Hampton Roads, Virginia area.

Poland. Krakow. Gestapo Museum. Inside.

A wooden crate more than a century old is shown Aug. 26 , 2022, at the Fort McCoy History Center in the historic Commemorative Area at Fort McCoy, Wis. The crate was donated to Fort McCoy by Alan McCoy of Sparta, Wis., who is the grandson of Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy for whom Fort McCoy is named after. The crate, which once carried lard buckets, traces back to the time of Camp Emery Upton and Camp Robinson in Wisconsin around 1910.

Memorial de Verdun, museum and war memorial commemorating the Battle of Verdun in the First World War 1916, France, Europe

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Boston, Massachusetts, for tour of harbor and the historic U.S. Naval vessel, U.S.S. Constitution

Bastogne War Museum, Bastogne War Museum, Second World War, 1940-1945, uniform, weapon, soldiers, Bastogne, Ardennes, Belgium, Europe

Museum of the Second World War, www.muzeum1939.pl, exhibition about Nazi death camps, Gdansk, Pomorze region, Pomorskie voivodeship, Poland, Europe

Photo murals of Nazi propaganda. The Holocaust Galleries - Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Casson Mann, 2023.

USA, Kansas, Abilene, Eisenhower Presidential Library area, site dedicated to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Eisenhower Presidential Museum, WWII exhibit

France, Nord, French Flanders, Dunkerque, Memorial du Souvenir, War Memorial Museum, naval gun from the Battle of Dunkirk, 1940.

FRANCE, Jura, Doubs, BESANCON: Bescancon Citadelle, Fortress built by Vauban 1672, Museum of Resistance and Deportation, WW2 Clandestine 2, way Radio

A morning scene before the opening of the 2022 Fort McCoy Armed Forces Day Open House is shown May 21, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Nearly 2,000 people participated in the open house. The days activities were centered on Fort McCoys Commemorative Area, which features the History Center; five World War II-era buildings filled with historical equipment and displays, the outdoor Equipment Park, and Veterans Memorial Plaza. Visitors also were treated to cooler temps and partly sunny skies. The event also had guided installation bus tours, a sandbag-filling station, personalized ID tags, camouflage face painting, military equipment displays, marksmanship galleries, and more. (Photo by Scott T. Sturkol/Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office)

Ron Miller, son of Don Miller, an original Flying Tiger, places his fathers flight jacket onto a mannequin during a Heritage Hall ceremony at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Aug. 10, 2022. Miller donated his fathers flight jacket to be displayed and honored as a part of the Don Miller display in Heritage Hall.

France, Pas de Calais, Cote d'Opale, Audinghen, Cap Gris Nez, Musee du Mur de Atlantique, Batterie Todt, WWII German bunker museum, museum interior.

German First World War One uniforms at the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium, Europe

A morning scene before the opening of the 2022 Fort McCoy Armed Forces Day Open House is shown May 21, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Nearly 2,000 people participated in the open house. The days activities were centered on Fort McCoys Commemorative Area, which features the History Center; five World War II-era buildings filled with historical equipment and displays, the outdoor Equipment Park, and Veterans Memorial Plaza. Visitors also were treated to cooler temps and partly sunny skies. The event also had guided installation bus tours, a sandbag-filling station, personalized ID tags, camouflage face painting, military equipment displays, marksmanship galleries, and more. (Photo by Scott T. Sturkol/Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office)

U.S. Air Force Col. Eric Schroeder, the 6th Medical Group commander, observes an invention at the University of South Florida Research Park, Tampa, FL, Sep. 16, 2022. After agreeing on an educational partnership agreement with USF, MacDills Airmen will have access to PhD level expertise to help further educational opportunities, and to discuss, brainstorm and solve problems.

060325-N-2197S-001. Base: Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: Naval Station Norfolk

Dachau Concentration Camp. Nazi camp of prisoners opened in 1933. Interior of the Memorial Museum. Germany.

Canada, New Brunswick, Central New Brunswick, Oromocto, New Brunswick Military History Museum, WW1 exhibit

Mark Godwin, right, 23rd Wing historian, shows Ron Miller, son of Don Miller, an original Flying Tiger, a painting before a Heritage Hall ceremony at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Aug. 10, 2022. Godwin set up the display in honor and memory of Millers father.

Vietnam, Hanoi. Vietnam Military History Museum, military bicycle used by Vietcong guerillas

Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu. Dien Bien Phu Museum, French soldier diorama

Gary Royse (right), a volunteer docent at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, fields questions from a visitor to their gallery on Friday, May 6, 2022. The museum, located on the second floor of the Nauticus campus in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia is home to a robust volunteer corps which helps the museum connect visitors with the naval history of the Hampton Roads, Virginia area.

Insturition room and model hall on the Sergeant Major Schickkazerne. Here a number of German bombs. Sergeant-Major Schickkazerne, Gutenbergweg 10, 4104 BA Culemborg. In use with the explosive clearance service (EOD) of Defense from 1983 to 2011.

Norfolk (October 1, 2022) Jim Beutte, one of the Volunteer Museum Docents at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, provides some meaningful interpretation visitors who arrived as part of the USS Wisconsin annual reunion. Battleship Wisconsin is located next to the museum.

Norfolk (October 1, 2022) Jim Beutte, one of the Volunteer Museum Docents at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, provides some meaningful interpretation visitors who arrived as part of the USS Wisconsin annual reunion. Battleship Wisconsin is located next to the museum. (US Navy Photo by Max Lonzanida/Released).

France, Alsace, Natzweiler Struthof camp, museum

England, London, Lambeth, Imperial War Museum, WWI European Military Uniforms

040502-F-1631A-055. Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AFSPC

The Amna Suraka (Red Security) Museum In Iraq

Israel, North Coast, Haifa, Naval Museum, interior

Canada, New Brunswick, Central New Brunswick, Oromocto, New Brunswick Military History Museum, Canadian military uniforms

Inside Atterberry Hall, 560th's headquarters, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, visitors can look at photos showing every freedom flier in the program's 26-year history. This photograph is part of the article " Freedom Flight", AIRMAN Magazine, September 1999 issue. Base: Randolph Air Force Base State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Visitor Centre, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for British soldiers of the First World War, Poperinge, Belgium, Europe

Jim Beutte (right) and Ira Hanna (left), volunteers docents at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, review a model of USS Newport News (CA-148) in the museums gallery. The museum, located on the second floor of the Nauticus campus in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia, is home to a robust volunteer corps which helps the museum connect visitors with naval history. (US Navy by Max Lonzanida/Released).

The Fort Drum Cultural Resources staff hosted a Cultural Symposium, May 2-6, with international military and civilian professionals participating in a series of site visits, presentations and discussions centered on cultural property protection. (Photo by Mike Strasser, Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs)

U.S. Marines with 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, tour The Great War Museum in Meaux, France, May 25, 2022. This visit is to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their respective countries during World War I.

A tourist examines the gun used to kill Hector Pieterson at the Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum in SOWETO Township, Johannesburg, South Africa.

RIFLE WINCHESTER MODELO 1886, fabricado en 1894 (en el centro de la imagen). The Journey Museum. Rapid City. Estado de Dakota del Sur. Estados Unidos.

Artifacts are shown at the Fort McCoy, Wis., History Center on Aug. 12, 2022. The History Center is part of the installations Commemorative Area. The 900 block of Fort McCoy and the 11-acre area surrounding it are at the hub of the forts history-preservation efforts and is called the Commemorative Area. The Commemorative Area consists of five World War II-era buildings set aside to help tell Fort McCoy's unique story. These facilities are representative of the types found in the cantonment area when it was constructed in 1942. Three of the buildings an administrative facility, a dining facility, and a barracks are set up to depict Soldier life during the 1940s. Display items include a World War II chapel, bunk beds, footlockers, mannequins, and potbelly stoves. Another building highlights four different modern military training venues, and a separate facility shows various training aids. The area also has the Equipment Park. Veterans Memorial Plaza is a tribute to all of the men and

France, Normandy, Basse-Normandie, Calvados, Caen Memorial,

Room with photos and photo albums in showcases, enlarged photos on panels and two visitors; Exhibition new acquisitions: photos of German soldiers in the Netherlands.

Armenia, Yerevan. Yerevan Military Museum, aviation models.

France, Pas de Calais, Wizernes-Helfaut, La Coupole, WWII German V2 rocket bunker, German V2 rocket and motor.

Overview of a showcase in the Marine Museum in Rotterdam.

The Jewish Holocaust Memorial, designed by Kenneth Treister in memory of all Jews that were lost in the Holocaust.

Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Citadel Hill National Historic Site, military display for the end of World War One centennial, British Lewis machine gun

Room with photo presentation about the war and an image of a man; Living and working in the Netherlands. The image is a copy of 'the Dokker' by Mari Andriessen.

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