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The official name of the museum, to be located on the campus of Joint Force Headquarters in Raleigh, NC, is “The North Carolina National Guard Museum and Learning Center of Excellence.” It will represent the service, sacrifice and heritage of North Carolina’s Army & Air National Guard. Not only will the museum preserve and display artifacts, art and stories of our military history, traditions and legacy, but it will also contain static displays of armor, wheeled vehicles, artillery and aircraft. The building itself will contain a research library, interactive displays for all ages, a theater, as well as areas in which to restore and preserve artifacts from the collection. Outside the building will be a “history trail,” featuring dugouts, trenches, and other fighting positions that have evolved over the course of our history, giving the visitor an up front and realistic taste of those features which can be difficult for the uninitiated to visualize.
The museum is tentatively set to open in the Winter of 2015, but cannot be successful without your help. We need artifacts of every description. Helmets, hats, badges, patches, weapons, uniforms, books, photographs, documents, flags, guidons, and anything else imaginable that relates to North Carolina’s incredibly fascinating, but sadly, under-represented history, heritage and legacy. Nothing is too small or too large, too old or too new. This is YOUR Museum, and it will tell YOUR history.
To donate artifacts of any kind, please contact:
CPT Sean Daily
Deputy Command Historian
Office: 919-664-6199
Email: [email protected]
SGT Gary Spencer
Office: 919-664-6214
Email: gary.c.spencer2.mil@mail
The mission of the North Carolina National Guard Museum and Learning Center of Excellence is dedicated to preserve and explain the service and traditions of the North Carolina National Guard while inspiring and educating the community, veterans and servicemen.
