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COLD WAR MUSEUM COLLECTION

View Slideshow: Civil Defense Collection before removal to storage (PDF). Slideshow viewing requires the free Acrobat Reader.

The Cold War Museum has over $3 million dollars in Cold War era artifacts in storage waiting to be displayed. The collection includes over 3,000 books, a 5,000 sq ft Cuban Missile Crisis Display, an SA-2 Missile, Nike Missiles, items from the USS Pueblo, USS Liberty, the U-2 Incident, Berlin Airlift, Corona Spy Satellite program, US and Soviet space programs, USMLM, and a variety of related Cold War items from international events and activities.

The Museum boasts the largest collection of Civil Defense items having rescued the entire Washington, DC Civil Defense Headquarters in 1997. The slide show above are images from the Civil Defense center prior to removal by the museum.

The photographic slide show below outlines our large collection of Eastern Bloc, East German, and other items from our collection. These are just some of the types of items that will be on display in the permanent Cold War Museum facility. If you would like to donate a Cold War artifact to the Museum, please click here.

Cold War Museum Artifacts 7/21/2006

Telegram sent by Khrushchev to Power's father. Original donated to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in 1995	Nuclear Attack Survival Kit Water "Impervious To Nuclear Fallout"	Civil Defense Drinking Water Container and Waste Disposal Unit
Soviet Commemorative Shirt made for Peace March in 1990	Soviet Banner of Baby Lenin for Soviet Youth Organization	KGB General's Photo Part of the Museum Collection
Soviet Flag	East German Flag	POW/MIA Flag
East German Parade Banner	Fallout Shelter Sign	Civil Defense Pennsylvania license plate
Piece of the Iron Curtain from the Hungarian Austrian Border presented to the Museum by the Hungarian Embassy	The East German Trabant. The citizens of East Berlin often had to wait eight years or more to get one of these 28hp vehicles.	The East German Trabant. The citizens of East Berlin often had to wait eight years or more to get one of these 28hp vehicles.

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