New York State Military Museum

As you make plans for your Giving Tuesday donations, Tuesday, Dec.1, please consider supporting the history mission of the Friends of the New York State Museum. Though 2020 has been a challenge for our nation and the Museum, we have accomplished so much because of supporters like you... and we hope you can help us to do even more in 2021. You can click on our secure website address to make a donation: https://www.friendsofthenysmilitarymuseum.com/store/ Without your suppo...rt, we would not have been able to put together our Civil War Exhibit, "Empire for Union", and our newest Korean/Vietnam War exhibit, "Hot Spots in the Cold War". Your support made these two exhibits possible. Please consider a donation to our museum, so we can continue our work in developing more new exhibits at the museum for the public to enjoy and learn from and at the same time honoring the contributions of our military to the defense of our country.

A captured British cannon as shown in our Revolutionary War exhibit at the Military Museum. American troops under the command of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery captured this British Smoothbore 6 pdr. at the surrender at St. John's, Canada. in 1775. The inscription reads: SURRENDERED BY THE CAPITULATION OF ST. JOHN'S... NOV. 25, 1775 See more

The staff and volunteers at the New York State Military Museum wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving Day.The staff and volunteers at the New York State Military Museum wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving Day.

Our "Hot Spots in the Cold War" Korean and Vietnam war exhibit includes this forerunner of the AK-47, this Soviet PPSh-41 "Burp Gun", Submachine Gun. It used a 71-round drum magazine or 35-round box fed magazine, and had an effective rate of fire of 1,000 rounds per minute with a range of 220 yards. The Soviet Union produced approximately five million PPSh-41's by the end of World War II and after the war supplied them to satellite and pro-communist countries such as North Korea.

A significant part of the NYS Military Museum‘s permanent collection is a group of nearly 2,000 flags dating from the War of 1812 to the present. Included in this nationally significant collection is the largest collection of state Civil War battle flags in the country. Explore the military battle flag collection in this video: