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The National Museum of the Marine Corps is the historical museum of the United States Marine Corps. Located in Triangle, Virginia near Marine Corps Base Quantico, the museum opened on November 10, 2006, and is now one of the top tourist attractions in the state, drawing over 500,000 people annually. [1]
website, includes main museum and Pittenger House Fleet Science Center: San Diego: Science: Located in Balboa Park: Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum: San Diego: Aviation: Aircraft, memorabilia and history of the United States Marine Corps Aviation Gaskill Brothers' Stone Store Museum: Campo: Local history
Marine Corps Museum, 1960–2005, collections now part of the National Museum of the Marine Corps; National Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon Art, open 1994–1997, collections now at the Library of Congress. [13] National Jewish Museum, collections now online, [14] trying to establish to new museum [15]
Mariners' Museum and Park, the official National Maritime Museum Y Virginia: Norfolk: Hampton Roads Naval Museum: Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine: Y Virginia: Portsmouth: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum: Y Virginia: Quantico: National Museum of the Marine Corps: Archived 2006-05-02 at the Wayback Machine: Virginia: Reedville
In the early 20th century, the Marine Corps displayed historical items such as captured weapons and flags in war trophy rooms at the Headquarters Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Barracks in Washington, D.C. [2] In 1940, the Marine Corps established a proto-museum on the second deck of Little Hall at Marine Corps Base Quantico. [3]
San Diego Computer Museum, holdings gifted to the San Diego State University Library, now web-based only; Treasure Island Museum, San Francisco, website, closed in 1997 but trying to reopen, interpreted the American experience in the Pacific as lived by the men and women of the U.S. sea services: the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard
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Four additional Marine Security Companies were also raised and helped George Washington defend Philadelphia. [citation needed] Marines were used by the US to carry out amphibious landings and raids during the American Revolution. Marines joined Commodore Esek Hopkins of the Continental Navy's first squadron on its first cruise in the Caribbean.