Branson takes veterans seriously, and the Veterans Memorial Museum on West 76 is its monument: ten halls running from World War I through Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East, holding more than 2,000 exhibits — uniforms, medals, letters and personal effects. Exactly three qualifying films of it exist; this page publishes them.
Watch: Veterans Memorial Museum Branson, guided
3 videos · summaries from the actual guidesThe bronze
You meet the museum outside first. BunnyPlaysHere's full walk starts at the 'Storming the Beach' bronze at the entrance: 70 feet long, 15 tons, fifty life-size soldiers — one for each state — billed as the largest military bronze statue in the world. A P-51 Mustang and the 'Donna K' aircraft mark the grounds.
Inside
The Mad Nomadder walks the halls in order, past the USS Missouri display and the walls of names, following the museum's method: exhibits built around individual service members' stories — BunnyPlaysHere's film pauses on one POW's, freed by Russian forces. A 360-degree film lets you drag the view through the halls for the collection's scale.
Sources: the 3 videos on this page. Branson's veterans guide gathers the town's wider veterans landscape.
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