Chris Bergeron
Daily News Correspondent
HUDSON – Entering the American Heritage Museum, the first thing visitors see is the opening sentence of the Declaration of Independence, “When in the Course of human events .” on the Orientation Theatre wall.
Like soldiers rushing into combat, they will continue into an immersive World War I Trench Experience in which one of the few surviving M1917 6-ton tanks built in the U.S. leads an American-led force into battle.
Welcome to a history lesson about courage, freedom and the military s role in protecting democracy with 40-ton tanks as teaching aids.
Visitors will walk through a 67,000 square foot building in which gargantuan armored vehicles - and a captured Iraqi SCUD missile and other rare military artifacts – offer vital lessons about history too often misconstrued in the hot gas of political rhetoric.
Pieces of combat art from Marine Corps museum going on U.S. tour Photo: The National Museum of the Marine Corps Facebook page
Multiple pieces of art from the National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico are going on tour.
The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation today announced a new traveling combat art exhibition titled Honor, Courage, Commitment: Marine Corps Art, 1975-2018. The exhibit features 36 works of art by 15 combat artists, focusing on Marine Corps service immediately following the Vietnam War through recent years.
The museum’s Marine Corps Combat Art Gallery opened in July 2017, as part of an expansion of the museum that included an IMAX movie theatre.