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Programs & Exhibits at the NYS Military Heritage Institute

Current Exhibits

Battleground for Freedom: New York and the Revolutionary War
This exhibition explores the critical strategic role of New York State in the American Revolution. Important artifacts include muskets, sabers, entrenching tools, cannons, and a variety of soldiers’ personal effects.

Fiery Trial and Sacrifice: New York and the First World War
Fiery Trial and Sacrifice focuses on the experiences of New York units in World War I from training camps to the battlefields of France. Large cases set within a recreated trench contain an assortment of lifelike mannequins, rifles, machine guns, grenades, gasmasks, medical equipment, and trench art.

World War II: United for Victory
Within the broad context of the Pacific and European theaters and home front manufacturing in New York State, this exhibition displays a large variety of uniforms, weapons, and other related artifacts to represent every branch of military service and honor and interpret the experience of the 17 million New Yorkers who participated in this momentous conflict.

Worth a Thousand Muskets: Civil War Field Artillery (opening July 8, 2006)
This exhibition surveys the weapons of equipment of Civil War field artillery and includes original rifled and smoothbore cannon, projectiles, fuses, uniforms, New York artillery flags.
The New York State Military Heritage Institute is a nonpartisan nonprofit 501(c)3 educational corporation, chartered by the Board of Regents, and dedicated to memorializing the military  heritage of the Empire State and the preservation, expansion, and interpretation of the military history collection of the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs. The Institute is  the official citizen based support organization of the New  York State Military Museum. See About Us for more information.
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