'Artifacts from our Attic' exhibit opens at Veterans Museum Broomfield

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VETERANS MUSEUM BROOMFIELD
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“Our temporary exhibits have usually centered around a theme,” said museum curator Elizabeth Beaudoin. “Such as highlighting a particular event in history, like Pearl Harbor, or a particular local individual, such as Admiral Arleigh Burke of Boulder. This time we wanted to give visitors an idea of the scope of the 6,300 catalogued items we have in storage.”

To accomplish this, the Veterans Museum Broomfield has opened a new temporary exhibit entitled “Artifacts from our Attic” — a potpourri of over 40 never-before-displayed historical artifacts that have been donated or loaned to the museum since its founding in 2001, but which don’t fit a particular theme.

“We are displaying a wide variety of items,” Ms. Beaudoin said. “Everything from an 1821 French cavalry saber — with an interesting story behind it — to an Iraqi flag from the Gulf Wars. A number of items are from our large World Wars I and II collection, including a Great War doughboy’s wallet, a leather flight helmet, a piece of concrete from a German bunker at Normandy, a Japanese mortar round, and a newspaper announcing the D-Day invasion.”

The Veterans Museum Broomfield is located at 12 Garden Center, on Midway Boulevard about a quarter-mile east of Wadsworth, and is open Tuesday and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call the museum at (303) 460-6801. 

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