The Museum Support Center at Belvoir
Several of you folks sent us a link to Buzzfeed‘s article by Benny Johnson about the Museum Support Center at Fort Belvoir and there’s nothing I can add to the series of photos.
Remember that ending scene out of Indiana Jones where the Ark of the Covenant is boxed up and wheeled through an endless government warehouse?
Did you know that that place actually exists?
It is located 30 minutes outside Washington, D.C., at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. The building itself is very nondescript…
Yeah, I’d like to get in there and just touch the weapons. Acres and acres of weapons. I never thought there’d be a place better than the armory at Williamsburg, but I was wrong.
Category: Historical
I drooled on my laptop. A lot.
The art was incredible. I could get lost for months in that place
Where’s the donate button?
Besides the historical articles (which I was also drooling over), I also wept to look at that painting “The 2000 Yard Stare”. That painting will haunt me for a long time to come. I pity the soldier that felt compelled to paint that. I hope the artist has finally found his peace and rest, hopefully with God.
They can find 24 million to build a storage facility that no one can go in but they could not have used that same 24 mil to at least start part of a museum to house some of the stuff. Good god, you can always add on as needed. 24 mil is quite a lot of seed. That govt. BZ
All I can say is OOOHHHHH and AAAAAHHHHH!!!! Man I’d love to see inside!
Probably never will be a museum big enough to display anything more than a minute percentage of artifacts that art of interest. Most museums have storage areas and rotate items in and out. At the Command museum at MCRD they have an armory that probably has over 100 weapons in it,,, In adition they have a huge space with items in boxes and cases. Uniforms, equipment, flags, maps, photos etc, They could probably fill 20 times the space they have with what they got.
Just wow!
@4, the painting “The 2000 yard stare” was painted by Thomas C. Lea in 1944 and it gave us the term “thousand yard stare”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Lea,_III#Paintings
I just nerdgasmed…
We have enough money to give illegal aliens welfare but not enough to build a museum to show our finest collection?
I just had an artgasm!
@ Just Plain Jason – I didn’t see your comment before I posted mine, but yep that about covers it.
$175 million to display countless American treasures, $534 million down the drain on Solyndra, $635 million for the Obamacare website, etc. etc. etc. More:
The complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:
Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*
SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
Solyndra ($535 million)*
Beacon Power ($43 million)*
Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
SunPower ($1.2 billion)
First Solar ($1.46 billion)
Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
Amonix ($5.9 million)
Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
Abound Solar ($400 million)*
A123 Systems ($279 million)*
Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*
Johnson Controls ($299 million)
Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
ECOtality ($126.2 million)
Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
Range Fuels ($80 million)*
Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*
Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
GreenVolts ($500,000)
Vestas ($50 million)
LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
Navistar ($39 million)
Satcon ($3 million)*
Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*
Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)
I don’t want to add that up. Disgusting.
Nothing close to this collection, but the Navy has a great museum at the Naval Academy. Fantastic artifacts. Things like the minie ball that killed Stephen Decatur, the battle flag from USS Monitor, the khakis Nimitz wore on USS Missouri to sign the surrender, etc. Great stuff.
Suuuuuuhweet! That would great to be able to go explore the place. Wow!
Nerdgasm doesn’t fit what I had when I saw all those rifles and art. If there ever was a chance to work there I would.