Army ‘pauses’ plan to close more than 20 base museums

The Army has put a hold on a proposed wave of closures that would have shuttered more than 20 official museums on Army bases around the country. Instead, the service will fall in line with rules set down by Congress this year that direct each military service to establish a “museum system.”

The Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps each operate a handful of established formal museums, but the Army’s 45-facility museum network is by far the largest and least centralized, spread across nearly 100 buildings and warehouses on bases across the U.S. and overseas. Army museums include several large, heavily visited facilities at major bases, like the National Museum of the United States Army at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and the National Infantry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia. But just as many are small facilities dedicated to lesser-known jobs at out-of-the-way bases like Virginia’s U.S.

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