Related Sites
Below are several sites you might find interesting.
Clubs & Organizations
American Society of Arms Collectors
Browning Collectors Association
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
BATF – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Colorado Gun Collectors Association
Colorado State Muzzle loading Association.
Colorado State Shooting Association
Connecticut State Library (Colt)
The Dallas Arms Collectors Association
Firearms Coalition of Colorado
German Gun Collectors Association
Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association
Houston Gun Collectors Association
International Ammunition Association, Inc. (IAA)
L.C. Smith Collectors Association
Marlin Firearms Collectors Association
Muzzle Loaders Association of Great Britain
National Firearms Association (Canada)
The National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association
NRA – National Rifle Association
Ohio Gun Collectors Association
SAAMI Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute
The Society of American Bayonet Collectors
Smith & Wesson Collectors Association
Texas Gun Collectors Association
US Springfield Trapdoor Rifle Information Center
Virginia Gun Collectors Association
Weatherby Collectors Association
American Museums
National Firearms Museum
National Rifle Association
11250 Waples Mill Road Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 267-1600
http://www.NRAmuseum.org
Phil Schreier, curator (18th, 19th, & 20th Century Firearms) (10/05)
The Art Institute of Chicago
The George F. Harding, Jr. Collection of Arms and Armor
111 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6110 (312) 443-3642
http://www.artic.edu
Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
P.O. Box 2128 Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742
(706) 866-9241
http://www.nps.gov/chch/index.htm
M. Ann Belkov, Supt.
(Claud E. Fuller Arms Collection) (7/04)
Cody Firearms Museum
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
720 Sheridan Avenue Cody, Wyoming 82414 (307) 578-4117
http://www.bbhc.org/firearms
David Kennedy, Curator
Serial number research
(307) 587-4771 (10/05)
Colonial Williamsburg
P. O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776
(757) 229-1000
http://www.history.org/history/museums Erik Goldstein, Curator (Revolutionary War Arms, & British arms 1702-1780) (10/05)
First Corps of Cadets Museum
227 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
(617) 267-1726
Craig W.C. Brown, Curator (U.S. Flintlock, Percussion, & Cartridge Military Arms) (7/04)
Fort Ticonderoga
P.O. Box 390
Ticonderoga, NY 12883
(518) 585-2821
http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org
Christopher Fox, Curator of Collections
(Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms) (10/05)
Frazier Historical Arms Museum
829 West Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202-2619
http://frazierarmsmuseum.org
(502) 412-2280 or toll-free (866) 886-7103
Mr. Walter “Chip” Karcheski, Chief Curator of Arms and Armor
(Includes huge number of exhibits from England’s Royal Armouries
in addition to large and first rate collection of American arms.)
(7/04)
Higgins Armory Museum
100 Barber Avenue
Worcester, MA – 01606-2444
(508) 853-6015 ext.17 Fax: .1-508-852 76 97
e-mail: jf******@hi*****.org
http://www.higgins.org
J.M. Davis Arms & Historical Musuem
333 Lynn Riggs Blvd. (U.S. Route 66)
Claremore, Okla. 74018
( 918)341-5707
http://www.state.ok.us/~jmdavis/
John M. Browning Memorial Museum
Rock Island Arsenal
Building 60
Rock Island, IL 61201
http://riamwr.com/MuseumHist.htm
Kris Gayman Leinicke, Curator
(American military Arms) (10/05)
Maine State Museum
State House Station 83
Augusta, ME 04333
(207) 289-2301
http://www.maine.gov/museum/index.html
Edwin Churchill, Chief Curator
(Collection of American Firearms expanded on Leister Collection)
(10/05)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org
5th Avenue at 82nd Street
New York City. NY 10028
(212) 879-5500 Ext. 3396
Stuart Pyhrr
(High Art Arms & Armor)
Milwaukee Public Museum Reference Library
(Nunnemacher Collection)
800 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233-1478
(414) 278-2736
http://www.mpm.edu/research/library/library.html
Morristown National Historic Park
30 Washington Place
Morristown, NJ 07960-4299
(908) 766-8215
http://www.nps.gov/morrSusan Kopczynski, Curator
(Revolutionary War Arms) (7/04)
b>Mountain Post Museum
Fort Carson, CO 80913
(:303) 579-2908
James J. Bush
Museum of the Fur Trade
6321 Highway 20
Chadron, NE 69337
(308) 432-3843
http://www.furtrade.org
(Indian Trade Arms) (10/05)
National Infantry Museum
Bldg 396- Baltzelll Avenue
Fort Benning, GA 31905
(706) 545-2958
http://www.benningmwr.com/museum.cfm
(American Military Arms) (10/05)
The National Museum of American History (Smithsonian
Institution)
14th Street and Constitution Avenue
Washington, DC 20560
http://www.ameridcanhistory.si.edu
(202) 633-3950
Bart Hacker, Curator, Division of Military History and Diplomacy
(American & European Arms) (7/04)
Saint Louis Art Musuem
1 Fine Arts Drive
St. Louis, MO 63110-1380
(314) 721.0072
http://slam.org/exhibits/armsandarmor/index.html
(Arms and Armor gallery) (10/05)
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
2503 4th Avenue
Canyon, TX 79015
(15 miles south of Amarillo)
806.651.2244
http://www.panhandleplains.org
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/spar
One Armory Square
Springfield, MA 01105-1299
(413) 734-6477 (office)
(413) 734-8551 (musuem)
http://www.rediscov.com/spring.htm
John R. McCabe, Curator;
Dru Bronson-Geoffroy, Archivist
(American Military Arms) (10/05)
U.S. Army Ordnance Museum
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005
(410) 278-3602
http://www.ordmusfound.org/index.htm
(U.S. Military Arms and Ordnance) (10/05)
U.S. Cavalry Museum
Box 9232
Fort Riley, KS
(785) 239-2737
http://www.riley.army.mil/view/article.asp?id=843-2002-04-30-35648-81
(10/05)
U.S. Marine Corps Museum
Washington Navy Yard
Closed to the public as of 15 April 2005
http://204.2.118.231/store/mchf/museum.asp
(10/05)
U.S. Marine Corps Air·Ground Museum
[CLOSED PERMANENTLY-shifting to National Museum of the Marine Corps & Heritage Center]
(7/04)
U.S. Naval Academy Museum
118 Maryland Avenue
Annapolis, MD 21402-5034
(410) 293-2108
http://www.usna.edu/Museum
Jim Cheevers, Senior Curator (10/05)
Valley Forge National Historic Park
1400 North Outerline Drive
King of Prussia, PA 19406
(610) 783-10000
http://www.nps.gov/vafo
Wallace Elms, Supt.
(George Neuman Revolutionary War Arms Collection) (10/05)
Walters Art Museum
(formerly known as: Walters Art Gallery)
600 North Charles Street
Baltimore, 21201
Ph. 410-547- 9000
http://www.thewalters.org
West Point Museum
United States Military Academy
West Point, NY 10996
http://www.usma.edu/Museum
(10/05)