Not surprisingly, West Point, New York, is the oldest Army Museum, but there are more than forty others, holding some 600,000 historical artifacts--one museum in Germany, one in the Republic of Korea, and the rest at military posts in the United States, including three in Virginia as well as the National Museum of the U.S. Army. The Army Museum Enterprise (AME) is the subject of a talk by Dr. James C. Kelly, who recently retired as Chief of Museum Programs for the Army Museum Enterprise.

Dr. Kelly, a native of Philadelphia, received the M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University. He was formerly Executive Director of the Tennessee American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, Chief Curator of the Tennessee State Museum, and Assistant Director for Museums at the Virginia Historical Society (now Virginia Museum of History and Culture) from 1990 to 2010, when he assumed the Army position. Just retired, he is living again in Richmond.