National Museum of the US Army

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besilarius

http://thenmusa.org/about-the-museum.php

Under construction at Fort Belvoir, south of Washington, DC.
There is a virtual tour of the completed museum which looks pretty good. 
One point is there will be a Sherman tank on display, which is being touted as "the first tank of Fourth Armored Division to enter Bastogne."
They always forget Task Force Ezell.
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trailrunner

Yeah, I'm looking forward to this.  It's about four or five miles from my house, and I used to commute by bike past the construction site when I worked on Fort Belvoir.  When I had that job, one of the guys in our division was a volunteer with the museum, and he arranged a small tour of the warehouse for us, which was very impressive.