The National Veterans Memorial and Museum (NVMM), which opens tomorrow in Columbus, Ohio, is the first of its kind, according to the members of the design and development team that brought the $75 million project to fruition. It is the country’s only military museum not dedicated to one branch of service or one particular conflict, explains Amy Taylor, project manager for the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation and the organization’s COO. Instead, NVMM’s mission is to recognize and celebrate the experience of veterans. “There is no other institution like that,” she says.
First conceived to honor Ohio’s service people, the ambition eventually expanded to include all U.S. veterans. At the core, however, the project’s goals have remained consistent. From the start the hope was to communicate what service means to veterans and their families, explains Brad Cloepfil, founding principal of Allied Works. The Portland, Oregon- and New York-based firm was selected by invited competition to design the museum in 2013.
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