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​Wright Museum Buy a Brick Program Returns

One of the unique features at the Wright Museum is the entrance courtyard where hundreds of memorial bricks adorn the walls up to a height of eight feet.   The program was suspended temporarily as the courtyard was literally filled to a height where additional bricks would not be easily read.

We are delighted to say that we will once again begin taking orders for memorial bricks, and that the bricks will be displayed in a new place of honor on the Museum wall facing Center Street.  The area around the bricks will become a Remembrance Garden where visitors can view the memorial bricks in restful landscaped surroundings with granite benches and flags.   For more information please click on the picture to the right.
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Click image to download a copy of the 2016 annual report
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The Wright Museum participating in Smithsonian magazine's 13th Annual Museum Day Live! on Saturday, September 23, 2017 offering free admission for two for those who download a Museum Day Live! ticket.  The Museum Day Live! ticket is available for download at Smithsonian.com/museumday. 

Say Thank You to our Troops!

New at the Wright Museum
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This season the Wright Museum is celebrating the year of the American soldier. As part of the celebration, we’ve partnered with A Million Thanks to send letters written by our visitors to our service men and women who are serving here and overseas. When you visit the Museum this season, please stop by the writing area and spend a few moments to write a letter and drop it in the box. We and A Million Thanks will do the rest to make sure your message reaches an active duty, reserve, or veteran who will appreciate your message.

Letter writing campaign sponsored by The Weirs Publishing Company and by the Saul O. Sidore Memorial Foundation
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New for this season, the Wright Museum has added two wonderful features to enhance the interactive experience for our visitors. In the Home Front Gallery, new SoundStiks will allow visitors to listen to the sounds of the WWII-era without disturbing other visitors around them. Each handheld “stik” plays a unique variety of 1940s radio clips, including an address from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, an episode of The Shadow, and a Betty Crocker cooking program. Visitors will find these SoundStiks in front of the living room and kitchen displays.
 
In the Military Gallery, visitors will find our 49” Ideum touchscreen. This screen will allow the museum to display several “virtual exhibits.” Currently, the screen hosts two exhibits. The first features the entire museum vehicle collection, digitized. Although there can only be a handful of vehicles in the gallery at any given time, visitors can use the touchscreen to view the entire collection and learn more about the vehicles that are not on display. The other exhibit, A Wartime Log: The Prisoner of War Journal of S/Sgt. Walter E. Bursiel, gives visitors the opportunity to flip through the digitized pages of a POW journal from the museum collection.  The exhibit tells the entire story of S/Sgt. Bursiel’s service as a B-17 ball turret gunner and the aftermath of the plane’s crash landing in the Netherlands. More exhibits will be added to the touchscreen in the future as well. Come in today to try out these great new features!
 
SoundStiks were made possible with the support of John and Cindy Cafasso. The touchscreen was made possible with support from the Ballentine Family Foundation and Andrew and Nancy Mako.
Dear Friends,
 
Each year we strive to bring you something new.  The 2017 season is dedicated to The Year of the American Soldier and we are really excited about the exhibitions and programs we have scheduled.  
But we are also already planning for 2018.  In fact, we have secured a wonderful 2018 exhibition entitled “Manufacturing Victory”. This exhibit focuses on the unbelievable way WW II-era Americans united to achieve a common goal during one of the most challenging periods in our nation’s history.
Those of us dedicated to the Wright Museum have a common goal - educating future generations about our shared history. Why is that so crucial? Winston Churchill said it best over seventy years ago: understanding our history helps us shape our future.
Together, YOU and the Wright Museum will teach that lesson.  All of us at the Museum sincerely appreciate your donations to the Annual Fund, and we ask your continued support so that we can continue to deliver relevant, high quality, educational experiences.
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