The Progress-Index
Fort Lee officials are teaming up with local public agencies to make its three museums - the Army Women’s Museum, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum and a new Army Transportation Pavilion - more publicly accessible.
Access to the museums is currently limited because of on-base safety restrictions. Fort Lee and its local partners want to create a museum enclave where the facilities can be open with much more regularity. Tighter restrictions at Fort Lee, and bases across the country, has hurt the number of visitors to these museums. Unfortunately what has occurred since 2016 when we had to kind of lock down the access to the installation for reasons of security, it made it much more difficult for the public to get to these wonderful gems of museums that we have, said Maj. Gen. Rodney D. Fogg.
By SEAN JONES | The Progress-Index, Petersburg, Va. | Published: May 7, 2021 PETERSBURG, Va. (Tribune News Service) Fort Lee officials are teaming up with local public agencies to make its three museums the Army Women’s Museum, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum and a new Army Transportation Pavilion more publicly accessible. Access to the museums is currently limited because of on-base safety restrictions. Fort Lee and its local partners want to create a museum enclave where the facilities can be open with much more regularity. Tighter restrictions at Fort Lee, and bases across the country, has hurt the number of visitors to these museums.
(Tribune News Service) Months into her role at Fort Monroe’s
Casemate Museum, director Francoise Bonnell has kept busy discovering relics within its cavernous halls and stories yet to be shared. But cleaning, archiving and moving bookcases inside a museum embedded within a stone structure two centuries old comes with drawbacks water gets inside easily and nobody knows exactly what’s buried around there. “I think the greatest challenge, that we’re faced is the age. There’s not anything I’ve realized now that I’m going to set my eyes on doing that will not have immediate challenges because of the age of the space. But that kind of challenge, I find quite remarkable,” Bonnell said.