NATIONAL MUSEUM AMERICANS AT WAR

This has been a privately owned museum of Mr. Allan Coors located in Nokesville Va. It contains an outstanding collection of armored vehicles from around the world. The museum holds a special exhibition once every year or two. Next year the new Americans in Wartime Museum containing all this and much more is scheduled to open in November near Woodbridge VA. The new museum is opening for memberships and publishes a newsletter. It has a web site here. From this web page one can learn about many aspects of the coming museum. The museum's stated objectives are: Honor those who serve(d) at home and abroad, tell personnal stories of those who serve(d), recognize all branches of the United States military, cover World War I to present conflicts, display Operational vehicles and aircraft on site.

This is links to photographs at the Coors museum in 2003 - on a rainy day

This links to the photos from 2006 from the open house. The open house in summer 2006 was dedicated to the Marine Corps Battle on Iwo Jima and included a reenactment of a Marine assault on a pillbox, complete with use of tanks and a flamethrower, as can be seen in several of the photos in this section.

Link to museum photos from open house in 2008

Link to museum photos from open house in 2009

Link to museum photos from open house on 24-25 October, 2013

Link to the museum photos from open house in 2014