Can’t be there in person? Tour the museum (2022) from your computer, tablet or smartphone – 360 Virtual Veterans Memorial Center Museum Tour
History brought to life: The BVMC Military Museum offers a Traveling Trunk Program to help bring history to life in schools, libraries, other museums, or youth groups. Check it out – BVMC Traveling Historical Trunks
The Education and Citizenship Armed Forces Coalition of the Space Coast (ECAC) website is now on line through Brevard Public Schools and is intended for public, private, and home schoolers in Brevard. It helps others looking for specialized military training, awards/contests; information about Museums of Brevard and the Student Museum Passport Program, teacher resources and much more.
The Brevard Veterans Memorial Center Museum collects, preserves and displays artifacts of the military history of the United States, with special emphasis on Brevard County veterans. The goal is to educate the community and inspire present and future generations with the military’s service and sacrifice.
The museum is open Monday thru Saturday from 10:00 to 4:00 and Sunday from 12:00 to 4:00.
It is always FREE of charge. We have thousands of visitors each year and hope you can visit us soon!
TO DONATE YOUR MILITARY ARTIFACTS: We welcome the opportunity to consider accepting your military artifacts into the collection, but it is not possible to display everything we receive, so we always encourage prospective donors to keep their cherished artifacts in the family, if preferred. Also, we cannot accept items on loan.
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You can drop off donations anytime the museum is open.
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Please complete a donation form with enough background to evaluate the item(s) and give us the human story behind the objects. You can print the Museum Artifact Donation Form and fill it out prior to bringing the items to be donated to the Center.
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If you prefer to discuss your possible donation, please call the Curator at 321-453-1776.
Thank you for considering entrusting the Museum with your donation so that others may enjoy it.
History: Since the early 1980’s we have been collecting and receiving donations of artifacts and mementos of intrinsic historic value and of special interest to the Veterans of Brevard County. These artifacts provide insight into the life and sacrifice of our nation’s military. Our collection holds thousands of unique and representative artifacts from the Revolutionary War through the Ongoing War on Terror, as well as the military in peacetime.
In the 1980s, the collection was housed in various locations in Titusville or wherever it could be displayed temporarily. With the construction and dedication of the current Veterans Memorial Center on Merritt Island in 1990, the museum finally had a permanent home. With the continuous donations of artifacts in the intervening years, the collection grew exponentially and the museum became severely space limited and unable to display many items of historic interest. The 2016 Expansion Project gave the museum a beautiful, new and much larger space to be able to more effectively display our artifacts, educate our visitors and provide a more enjoyable experience.