Cold War Museum

Cold War Museum Collection

View Slideshow: Civil Defense Collection before removal to storage (PDF). Slideshow viewing requires the free Acrobat Reader.

The Cold War Museum has over $3 million dollars in Cold War era artifacts in storage waiting to be displayed. The collection includes over 3,000 books, a 5,000 sq ft Cuban Missile Crisis Display, an SA-2 Missile, Nike Missiles, items from the USS Pueblo, USS Liberty, the U-2 Incident, Berlin Airlift, Corona Spy Satellite program, US and Soviet space programs, USMLM, and a variety of related Cold War items from international events and activities.

The Museum boasts the largest collection of Civil Defense items having rescued the entire Washington, DC Civil Defense Headquarters in 1997. The slide show above are images from the Civil Defense center prior to removal by the museum.

The photographic slide show below outlines our large collection of Eastern Bloc, East German, and other items from our collection. These are just some of the types of items that will be on display in the permanent Cold War Museum facility. If you would like to donate a Cold War artifact to the Museum, please click here.


	Cold War Museum Artifacts 7/21/2006



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U-2 Helmet used by Francis Gary Powers	Nuclear Attack Survival Kit Water "Impervious To Nuclear Fallout"	Civil Defense Drinking Water Container and Waste Disposal Unit
Autographed picture of Five Star General Omar Bradley to Gary Powers,Jr., includes Bradley's Five Star rank insignia and commemorative medallion	Suitcase carried across Glenicker Bridge on February 10, 1962 by Francis Gary Powers when exchanged for Col. Rudolf Abel and vintage newspaper reporting the event	Suitcase carried across Glenicker Bridge on February 10, 1962 by Francis Gary Powers when exchanged for Col. Rudolf Abel
Soviet Commemorative Shirt made for Peace March in 1990	Soviet Banner of Baby Lenin for Soviet Youth Organization	Model of a SR-71 produced for its final record-breaking flight
Soviet Flag	East German Flag	POW/MIA Flag
East German Parade Banner	Piece of the Berlin Wall with photograph where piece was taken from	Civil Defense Pennsylvania license plate
Piece of the Iron Curtain from the Hungarian Austrian Border presented to the Museum by the Hungarian Embassy	Fallout Shelter Sign	Matryoshka nesting dolls of Soviet and Russian Leaders
Signed USAF Thunderbirds Picture presented to Gary Powers, Jr.Back to Top	Letter from Vice-President Nixon to Power's father	Telegram sent by Khrushchev to Power's father. Original donated to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in 1995
Milligan College Year book of Francis Gary Powers	KNBC Promotional Photo of Francis Gary Powers	Milligan College Year book of Francis Gary Powers
Milligan College Year book of Francis Gary Powers	Photo taken by Powers during flight training.	Photo taken by Powers during flight training.
Autographed photograph by Jimmy Dolittle to Francis Gary Powers	Citation and photograph for Intelligence Star for Valor awarded Francis Gary Powers in 1965	Helicopter flight training certificate for Francis Gary Powers
Photograph of Francis Gary Powers prison cell in Vladimir, Russia	Photograph of Francis Gary Powers prison cell in Vladimir, Russia with Gary Powers, Jr. inside	Plaque honoring Francis Gary Powers outside of Whitesburg, Kentucky Court House. Powers was born in Jenkins, Kentucky a few miles away
Plaque honoring Francis Gary Powers outside of Whitesburg, Kentucky Court House. Powers was born in Jenkins, Kentucky a few miles away	Parachute and Camera from U-2 Incident wreckage on display at Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow.	Photograph of U-2 ejection seat from U-2 Incident in at the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow.
Photograph of U-2 wreckage from U-2 Incident in at the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow	Photograph of U-2 wreckage (Air Intake) from U-2 Incident in at the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow	Photograph of U-2 wreckage (Fuel Intake) from U-2 Incident in at the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow
Flight Path of May 1, 1960 U-2 Flight	Cold War Museum Patch Flown on U-2 Incident 40th Anniversary Flight.	Proclamation from Los Angeles in honor of Powers' Death.
FAA Helicopter School Graduation Certificate for Francis Gary Powers	KGB General's Photo Part of the Museum Collection	Front page newspaper about 40th anniversary of U-2 Incident commemoration and awards presentation ceremony at Beale AFB in California
Article on U-2 Incident	Russian newspaper Pravda with article on trial of Francis Gary Powers	Article on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, which ruled that Powers had lived up to his obligations as an American during his imprisonment
Newspaper from Moscow on the Trial of Francis Gary Powers	Front page newspaper about 40th anniversary of U-2 Incident commemoration and awards presentation ceremony at Beale AFB in California	Washington Times article on the Spy Tour of Washington, DC. Mailbox used by Aldrich Ames to notify the KGB of pick-ups. Plaque in Georgetown cafe where Yuri Yurchenko escaped from CIA handlers
Front Page article about Cold War reconnaissance shoot-downs	The East German Trabant. The citizens of East Berlin often had to wait eight years or more to get one of these 28hp vehicles.	The East German Trabant. The citizens of East Berlin often had to wait eight years or more to get one of these 28hp vehicles.

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