Alex and I ran across a few of the Tanks from this Museum at the Fourth of July celebration in downtown Houston. I got the little brochure and we ventured up to this museum. We got a personal tour of this museum and even the yard where they work on the vehicles they are given or buy that the military can no longer use or sell. It was a pretty cool place. The gentleman in charge of the museum came in to give us a tour of the rooms with the artifacts from the World wars, such as uniforms, inactive weapons and missiles.
The gentleman in charge was full of fun stories from his time in the military, from disarming different weapons found in houses and washed up on river banks, when the wrong people decide to disarm TNT, and about the munitions dumps in this area. It was rather intriguing and amusing to listen to at times. He even explained how repairing the vehicles can take place including sometimes the vehicles being owned by someone else after a few years.
They are hoping to either be able to own the building or be able to obtain a place that they can re-do to make it more museum efficient.
The former picture is a tank that is currently being worked on.
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