Military Museums and Collections — USA
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Explore America’s conflicts, beginning with the Revolutionary War to today. You’ll discover, and interact with, our heritage through the History, the national effort developing new technologies of warfare, and the Human Impact of America’s fight to preserve the freedom we all hold dear. Among the staggering variety of rare relics, the American Heritage Museum features over fifteen tanks and artifacts that are the only ones on public display in North America.

001 978 562 9182 American Heritage Museum Website

One of the largest non-government funded aviation & space museums in the world! Featuring about 400 historic aircraft, from a Wright Flyer to a 787 Dreamliner. Sitting on 80 acres the museum opened its doors to the public in May of 1976. Over the past forty years, the museum has grown immensely and today encompasses six indoor exhibit hangars - three dedicated to WWII. Tucson, Arizona.

001 520 574 0462 Pima Air and Space Museum Website

Over 60 Armored vehicles and ground assault of the 20th Century. Our collection spans from World War I through the Gulf War into the present day — unveiling the power, innovation, and legendary stories of the armored giants that dominated the battlefield. Every mission is represented from reconnaissance and logistics to the force at the front lines, where machinery from opposing armies comes head to head once again here at the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum.

001 520 653 0080 Tucson Military Vehicle Museum Website

The museum hosts the largest private collection of artillery in the USA displaying modern breech loaded artillery and other crew served ordnance from the artillery family of weapons along with their munitions and fire control systems. International in scope, the artillery is primarily from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War Era and conflicts up to the present time. Additionally displayed are representative WWI and earlier examples of technologically significant artillery.

001 940 395 9309 Artillery Museum LLC Website

Where history comes alive! This unique military museum has a vast range of exhibits and regular themed events from the American Revolution to the beaches of Normandy, the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of Afghanistan. Explore the life and times of brave military men and women: the uniforms they wore, weapons they used, and vehicles they drove. Experience the stories you know in a new way, and discover ones you’ve never heard about national legends and local heroes.

001 812 882 1941 Indiana Military Museum Inc Website

With over fifty operational armor vehicles under 25,000 square feet of space within a park preserve some thirty five miles east of Manhattan, the Museum of American Armor on Long Island offers periodic armor immersion programs for visitors in cooperation with living historians that recreate the embattled woods of France, 1944. Open year around, Thur-Sunday, donations suggested.

001 516 454 8265 Museum Of American Armor Website

Gettysburg now has the perfect bookend to its Civil War Battlefield and Visitors’ Center—the World War II American Experience. This new World War II museum has it all—ride real Sherman tanks, learn the stories of real people who served, and touch and feel real history.

001 717 253 3414 WWII American Experience Website

When America goes to war, the American people go to war—from the armed forces to civil servants to the families at home. The Americans in Wartime Museum will bring history to life through the stories of American men and women who have answered the nation’s call to serve, from World War I to the present.

001 703 662 5774 Americans In Wartime Experience Website

With over 120 tank, armour and cavalry exhibits, the AAF Tank Museum's mission is to collect, restore, display and preserve as many Tank and Cavalry artifacts as is possible. To preserve the memories of the men and women so that present and future generations will have available to them a significant part of military history to learn from and explore.

001 434 836 5323 AAF Tank Museum Website