Tour of National Guard Museum Online

It’s now possible to tour the seven galleries of the National Guard Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., from your home. Photos of the museum accompanied by narration became available last week on the website for the National Guard Educational Foundation at www.ngef.org.

The virtual tour of the museum, says Anne Armstrong, the deputy director of NGEF, fits the mission of the foundation to educate the public about the National Guard.

“It allows viewers easy and ready access for learning the history of the National Guard at their own pace and lets them concentrate on their own interests,” she says.

Many people unable to visit the nation’s capital and tour the museum in person now have an opportunity to see what is on display, Armstrong says.

Like the museum, the virtual tour follows the nearly 400-year history of the Guard from colonial days to the current efforts at home and abroad. One highlight is the ability to access the 785 names found on the museum’s Memorial Wall listing Guardsmen who have been killed battling terrorism since 9/11.

The narration was done by Staff Sgt. Frank E. Jackson II, a recruiter with the District of Columbia Army National Guard.