Museum of Missouri Military History
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  Location within Missouri | |
| Established | April 1999 |
|---|---|
| Location | Jefferson City, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 38°32′58″N 92°04′22″W / 38.5494°N 92.0728°W |
| Type | Military museum |
| Director | Charles Machon[1] |
The Museum of Missouri Military History is in Jefferson City, Missouri.
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
Collection
Aircraft
Ground vehicles
- 1927 Chrysler staff car[17]
- M4E8 Sherman[18]
- M113[19]
- M551 Sheridan[18]
- M901[18]
- Willys M38A1[17]
Other
- M1841 6-pounder field gun[17]
- World War I anti-aircraft gun[20]