The museum opened in April 1999 in a two-story building at the Ike Skelton Training Site.[2] However, after 13 years the collection had become to large to display in the 1,000 sq ft (93 m2) space and the museum announced plans to move.[3] It began relocating to a series of 6,400 sq ft (590 m2) maintenance bays adjacent to the Missouri National Guard headquarters in 2013.[4] The museum held a grand opening in the new space on 7 December 2014.[5]
In the following years the museum received several aircraft for display, including an F-4 in August 2015 and a C-130 from the closed Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum in May 2016.[6][7] The latter was repainted in European camouflage in July 2017.[8]
Exhibits
Temporary exhibits at the museum have covered subjects such as African-Americans in the military, military food and military toys.[9][10][11]
The museum holds a Veterans Appreciation Weekend twice annually around Memorial Day and Veterans Day, with reenactors and recreations of military life.[19]
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^Amick, Jeremy (18 June 2012). "Museum of Missouri Military History Will Move to Larger Facility". News Tribune. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^Brooks, Michelle (7 September 2013). "Military Museum Begins Move". News Tribune. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^Link, Katie (7 December 2014). "Museum of Missouri Military History Hosts Grand Opening". KOMU. Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^"Vintage Jet Fighter Lands at Military Museum". News Tribune. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^"Hercules is Coming to Town". News Tribune. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^Haldiman, Jeff (13 July 2017). "St. Joseph Crew Restores C-130 Hercules for Mid-Missouri Display". Fulton Sun. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^Brooks, Michelle (8 February 2017). "Black Missourians' Military Contributions Featured in New Museum Exhibit". Fulton Sun. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^Hilderbrand, Brittany (24 September 2017). "MU Students Create Military Food Exhibit at Museum". Fulton Sun. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^"Museum Shares Its Toy Tradition with Display". Fulton Sun. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^"Airframe Dossier - Bell AH-1F Cobra, s/n 67-15682 US". Aerial Visuals. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^"Airframe Dossier - Bell GUH-1H Iroquois, s/n 64-13644 USAF". Aerial Visuals. Retrieved 1 March 2024.