An amazing display of all sorts of military history is right here in Huntsville!
H.E.A.R.T.S. Veterans Museum of Texas的点评
点评:This museum was very interesting and had some really stunning displays and a very large collection of items for visitors to see. When we entered and paid the small price of admission, we were greeted by a volunteer, I believe he was a Vietnam veteran who welcomed us and gave some interesting information to get us started. The entry area is where he said they let kids be kids, the children of visitors get to play around in the mock up of what a US field camp would have looked like in Vietnam. He said they know smaller kids aren't always too excited about a boring museum tour so they can play soldier in this area, climb into the tent or pretend to be firing at incoming planes with the mocked up field gun. The parents are reminded that in other parts of the museum, the kids aren't allowed to interact with displays.
The museum is laid out in a loop, you start to the right with the Revolutionary War period and on to the Civil War and so on. The hallway is filled with exhibits and there are rooms along the walk that you can enter that have more stuff to see. As you finish your tour you get to the section from recent conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Outdoors there are many displays of military hardware, large trucks, a tank, helicopters and jet fighters. There is also a replica of the Vietnam Wall Memorial in the back that is very sobering to walk past and see so many names of service men and women who died in that conflict.
This museum is easy to get to on the NW side of the city and just off of Interstate 45. There is plenty of parking, it's next door to the Prison Museum so we toured that and walked across the grass to this museum.
翻译:这个博物馆非常有趣,有一些非常令人惊叹的展览和大量的物品供游客参观。当我们进入并支付少量入场费时,一位志愿者迎接了我们,我相信他是一位越南老兵,他欢迎了我们,并给我们提供了一些有趣的信息让我们开始参观。他说,在入口处,他们让孩子们做回孩子,游客的孩子可以在模拟的越南美国野战营地里玩耍。他说,他们知道小孩子并不总是对无聊的博物馆之旅感到兴奋,所以他们可以在这个区域扮演士兵,爬进帐篷,或者假装用模拟的野战炮向来袭的飞机射击。提醒家长,在博物馆的其他地方,孩子们不允许与展品互动。
博物馆呈环形布局,从右边开始是独立战争时期,然后是内战时期等等。走廊里摆满了展品,你可以沿着步道进入一些房间,那里有更多的东西可看。游览结束后,您将到达伊拉克和阿富汗等近期冲突的部分。
户外有许多军事装备、大型卡车、坦克、直升机和喷气式战斗机的展示。后面还有越南墙纪念碑的复制品,走过时看到那么多在那场冲突中牺牲的男女军人的名字,令人心酸不已。
这个博物馆位于城市的西北侧,靠近 45 号州际公路,交通便利。这里有很多停车位,它就在监狱博物馆隔壁,所以我们参观了监狱博物馆,然后穿过草地来到这个博物馆。