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These institutions vary in their scope and focus, with some museums dedicated to a specific national or regional context and chronicling the military history of a particular country or region, while other museums may concentrate on a particular conflict, era, service, technology (like an artillery museum), or unit (like a regimental museum).
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This list of museums in Ohio is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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The museum holds a large collection of televisions from the 1920s and 1930s, and scores of the much-improved, post-World War II, black-and-white sets that changed the entertainment landscape.
The construction of a veterans museum was envisioned by city boosters and received support from former Senator and World War II veteran John Glenn. [7] It was designated as the National Veterans Memorial and Museum by the United States Congress in June 2018. [8] [9] The museum was the 20th museum to receive national museum status from Congress. [4]
The McDonald Ranch House was built in 1913 by Franz Schmidt, a German immigrant, and acquired by the McDonald family in the 1930s. The ranch was vacated by the McDonald family under protest in 1942, when the United States Army took over the land as part of the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range to use in training bomber crews during World War II.
The museum was founded in 1987 by Warren E. Motts in his family home. [1] [2] However, by 1995, the museum announced plans to move to a new location with a 3,500 sq ft (330 m 2) building. [3] After initially attempting to purchase and move Eddie Rickenbacker's Home to the museum in 1996, the museum constructed a replica four years later. [4]