View Gallery: The American Heritage Museum highlights our history and our veteransįounded in 1979, the Collings Foundation, based in Stow, is a private nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to the preservation and display of transportation-related history focusing on automobiles and airplanes. 11, 2001.įor AHM President Rob Collings, the more than 80 tanks and armored vehicles on display provide powerful history lessons that embody the core principles of the Declaration of Independence and the democracy it heralded. In a typical two-hour visit, they will take a century-long time trip from the Battle of Saint-Mihiel in 1918 to the mine-strewn roads of Iraq and Afghanistan with stops at Omaha Beach, the Battle of the Bulge and interviews with the pilots of two Air Force F-16 fighter planes pursuing a hijacked airliner heading for the Capitol Building on Sept.
battlesīeginning with an introductory film about the Civil War and World War I, visitors will see 21 chronologically-arranged exhibits, each featuring fully operational armored vehicles, some aircraft and artifacts. On display: Last Pearl Harbor fighter plane that still flies a historical highlightĬhaney said the weapons from the U.S., its allies and enemies “provide a unique opportunity” to reach out to both adults and young kids visiting as individuals or with school groups and “create an environment that excites them about learning history.” A walk through history of U.S. “And that helps us engage people in the history of these different wars, eras and timelines.”
“We want to show why these tanks, armored vehicles and other artifacts were made, to what purpose and end,” he said. You can't escape it,” said Hunter Chaney, the museum's marketing director, looking toward an exhibit about the Allied landings on Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944.
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