Background
Hintergrund auf DeutschIn 1996, Francis Gary Powers, Jr. and John C. Welch founded the Cold War Museum to preserve Cold War history and honor Cold War Veterans. Currently, a mobile exhibit of historical artifacts associated with the U-2 Incident of May 1960 is traveling around the world promoting interest in the creation of a permanent Cold War Museum facility. The display has been exhibited at many sites including:
- Norwegian Aviation Center, Bodш, Norway
- National Reconnaissance Office, Chantilly, Virginia
- Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, Virginia
- National War College, Fort Leslie J. McNair, Washington, DC
- Defense Intelligence Agency, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC
- George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
- National Security Agency Cryptologic Museum, Fort Meade, Maryland
- Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, Illinois
- George C. Marshall Museum, Leesburg, Virginia
- Strategic Air Command Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
- United States Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio
- PIMA Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona
- National Atomic Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Texas Air Museum, Lubbock, Texas
- The Allied Museum, Berlin, Germany (through June 15, 2000)
- Seattle Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington (Nov. 2000 - March 2001)
- Florida International Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
- EAA - Experimental Aircraft Association, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
- Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
- The Allied Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Space and Missile Command Conference, Huntsville, Alabama
- Seattle Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington
To book the Cold War Museum Traveling Exhibit or reserve a speaker for an upcoming event, please contact the Cold War Museum or call (703) 273-2381.
The traveling exhibit acts as a catalyst for the creation of a permanent Cold War Museum. The Museum will exhibit artifacts and memorabilia associated with various Cold War related events and activities such as Winston Churchill’s Fulton, Missouri speech; the Marshall Plan; the Berlin Air Lift; the building of the Berlin Wall; the Korean War; the U-2 Incident; the Bay of Pigs; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Vietnam War; President Gorbachev’s “Perestroika” and “Glasnost”; Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars); the fall of the Berlin Wall; and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1997, Congressman Tom Davis, with the assistance of the Cold War Museum, drafted legislation for the creation of a “Cold War Memorial” that will honor all the men and women who were part of Cold War events and activities.
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