My visit to the National WWI Museum (with pics!)

[hockeywarrior]

The National WWI Museum (US) is located in Kansas City, Missouri which so happens to be my home town. The museum opened about 7 years ago, in which time it has become the most popular museum in the city and a national landmark.

The museum is simply incredible. I have visited 3 separate times since it has opened, and on each visit I probably spent a good 3 hours there. Even then, I'm positive I haven't read, seen, or experienced everything. The museum has a massive collection, and only a percentage of it is actually shown in the exhibit. Every year or so they rotate out parts of the museum and fill it with different stuff.

Last May I decided to visit with my dad on Memorial Day and I had the good sense to take pictures. Granted, I only had my phone camera with me, but I thought I'd share the pictures with you all who would respect this stuff.

Rather than put every single pic here, I'll just give you a link to the album. The pictures I took are only a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction of what is there, but alas my phone doesn't have nearly enough memory for that

Enjoy!

http://imageshack.us/g/707/photo0431.jpg/

And to get a better idea of what the museum actually looks like, here's a link to their website:

http://www.theworldwar.org/s/110/new/index_community.aspx

 

[Private Who?]

very nice! thanks for sharing.

 

[hockeywarrior]

The lighting was low and my camera was ****ty so alot of the pics are fuzzy. But it still is worth sharing I think.

 

[fiftyone]

Nice one.

 

[LemoN]

Great pictures, thanks for sharing man! :IS2::IS2::IS2:

 

[Lt_Kettch]

Awesome, more an arsenal than a museum

 

[hockeywarrior]

The most impressive thing about the museum is how much obscure **** they have. Like Hungarian machine guns, Chinese and Japanese Army uniforms, and some of the most bizarre rifles and pistols I have never heard of, just as a few examples. And they really do a fantastic job of covering all of those lesser known sides of the war, such as the Italian Front, Turkish (Gallipoli), the battle for Iraq, and the Eastern Front. It's truly overwhelming.

 

[Dietrich Graf]

Another great museum is the one in Fredericksburg, Texas (the home of Admiral Chester Nimitz): The National Museum of the Pacific War. I'll have to try and find the pictures I took from it.

YouTube - ‪The National Museum of the Pacific War‬‏

 

[Alexander Ostmann]

That place looks amazing. I've been to the Imperial War Museum in London so now I must make the trek to Kansas to compare

 

[hockeywarrior]

That place looks amazing. I've been to the Imperial War Museum in London so now I must make the trek to Kansas to compare

Just for ease of locating it, it's in Kansas City, Missouri

 

[Alexander Ostmann]

Just for ease of locating it, it's in Kansas City, Missouri

Wow, fail. Glad to know I didn't learn to read in high school. *facepalm*

 

[hockeywarrior]

Wow, fail. Glad to know I didn't learn to read in high school. *facepalm*

Nah it's an easy mistake. After all, why would you name it Kansas City? Well the truth is, it's because the city is built on where the Missouri and Kansas rivers meet. I guess despite the Missouri's huge size difference, they named it after the other. Oh and there IS a Kansas City Kansas right across the river, but it's super ghetto lol.

I'll have to check out that museum. Any establishment that has a submarine tower on the front lawn is OK by me. :IS2:

 

[Alexander Ostmann]

Nah it's an easy mistake. After all, why would you name it Kansas City? Well the truth is, it's because the city is built on where the Missouri and Kansas rivers meet. I guess despite the Missouri's huge size difference, they named it after the other. Oh and there IS a Kansas City Kansas right across the river, but it's super ghetto lol.

I'll have to check out that museum. Any establishment that has a submarine tower on the front lawn is OK by me. :IS2:

Gotta love states' histories.

They also have a model submarine you can enter in the museum itself, along with one of the American bombers (can't remember the model). You can walk through it all (except the cockpit), and it's quite something. I can't imagine being cramped in one of those things seeing all of your buddies get shot down all around by the Luftwaffe while you try and bomb one city.