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| Press Room • Calendar of Events • Photo Gallery • Press Contacts • Special Events • Military Ceremonies at the Museum • Former Marines and Photos |
| Ongoing Events and Temporary Exhibits at the Museum | |
| “9/11 - We Remember” The National Museum of the Marine Corps commemorates the anniversary of 9/11 with the temporary exhibit "9/11 - We Remember," which features an I-beam from the World Trade Center and a Pentagon building fragment as well as inspiring stories of extraordinary efforts that have been taken to keep America safe since that fateful day. The exhibit invites visitors to share their memories of the day that ushered in a "new reality" for all Americans while also paying tribute to a generation that has borne the burden of our security during a decade of war. The exhibit also pays tribute to the resilience of the American people and the stubborn defiance of the Corps and its Marines. Visitors will see that defiance in the display of a Marine Corps flag found standing upright near a sheered edge of the Pentagon, maintaining a silent vigil over the rubble of the damaged building. The flag, like the Marines it represents and the Nation they serve, never faltered under the terrorist attack. |
On display until Spring of 2014 |
| “President´s Own” Band´s Inaugural History “President´s Own” has offered direct support to the commander in chief since the days of John Adams, and now the National Museum of the Marine Corps celebrates this legacy with a new exhibit titled “Hailing the Chief: The United States Marine Band and Presidential Inaugurals.” On display through September 2013, the new exhibit focuses on the Marine Band´s involvement in inaugural ceremonies and its significance in Marine Corps history through a collection of compelling photographs and interpretive texts as well as uniform items, musical instruments and even the conductor´s baton used at the 2013 inaugural ceremony. |
On display until August 26, 2013 |
| “Weapons Platoon: A Marine's Life in Afghanistan” by Stephen Dupont This series of thirty-five photographs is a portrait of a Marine platoon that Dupont was embedded with in the Spring of 2009. "I choose to take a simple and intimate path in this project and simply asked all the Marines in the platoon to write their answers to the question 'Why are you a Marine?' in a small journal that I kept while I was embedded with them. While in the field I took the Polaroids of each Marine and gave them the positive as a reciprocal gesture for their participation and honesty and later back in Sydney printed from the negative." - Stephen Dupont |
On display until September 2013 |
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