Virginia War Museum
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The Virginia War Museum is located in Huntington Park on Warwick Blvd., Newport News, Virginia.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Collections
The Museum's collection includes, weapons, vehicles, 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.
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