  Location within Missouri | |
| Established | April 1999 |
|---|---|
| Location | Jefferson City, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 38°32′58″N92°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]
Temporary exhibits at the museum have covered subjects such as African-Americans in the military, military food and military toys. [9] [10] [11]
The museum holds a Veterans Appreciation Weekend twice annually around Memorial Day and Veterans Day, with reenactors and recreations of military life. [19]
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