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Background
 Hintergrund auf Deutsch
In 1996, Francis Gary Powers,
Jr. and John C. Welch founded the Cold War Museum
to preserve Cold War history and honor Cold War
Veterans. Currently, a mobile exhibit of historical
artifacts associated with the U-2 Incident of May
1960 is traveling around the world promoting interest
in the creation of a permanent Cold War Museum facility.
The display has been exhibited at many sites including:
- Norwegian
Aviation Center, Bodø, Norway
- National
Reconnaissance Office, Chantilly, Virginia
- Central
Intelligence Agency, Langley, Virginia
- National
War College, Fort Leslie J. McNair, Washington,
DC
- Defense
Intelligence Agency, Bolling Air Force Base,
Washington, DC
- George
Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
- National
Security Agency Cryptologic Museum, Fort
Meade, Maryland
- Octave
Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, Illinois
- George
C. Marshall Museum, Leesburg, Virginia
- Strategic
Air Command Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
- United
States Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio
- PIMA
Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona
- National
Atomic Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Texas
Air Museum, Lubbock, Texas
- The
Allied Museum, Berlin, Germany (through June 15, 2000)
- Seattle Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington (Nov. 2000 - March 2001).
- Florida International Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
- EAA - Experimental Aircraft Association, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
- Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
- The Allied Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Space and Missile Command Conference, Huntsville, Alabama
- Seattle Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington
To book the Cold War Museum Traveling Exhibit or
reserve a speaker for an upcoming event, please
contact the Cold
War Museum or call (703) 273-2381.
The traveling exhibit acts as a catalyst for the
creation of a permanent Cold War Museum. The Museum
will exhibit artifacts and memorabilia associated
with various Cold War related events and activities
such as Winston Churchill’s Fulton, Missouri speech;
the Marshall Plan; the Berlin Air Lift; the building
of the Berlin Wall; the Korean War; the U-2 Incident;
the Bay of Pigs; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Vietnam
War; President Gorbachev’s “Perestroika” and “Glasnost”;
Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars);
the fall of the Berlin Wall; and the collapse of
the Soviet Union. In 1997, Congressman Tom Davis,
with the assistance of the Cold War Museum, drafted
legislation for the creation of a “Cold War Memorial”
that will honor all the men and women who were part
of Cold War events and activities.
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