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West Point Ordnance Museum

The ordnance museum at the United States Military Academy at West Point holds a reference collection of guns and ordnance, and its descriptive catalogue is a standard identification source.

Also known as: West Point ordnance collection.

LocationUnited States Military Academy, West Point, New York
HoldingsA reference collection of guns and ordnance
ReferenceIts descriptive catalogue is a standard source

A reference collection

The ordnance collection at the United States Military Academy at West Point preserves guns, projectiles, and ordnance materiel gathered over the long history of the Academy and the Army. It is one of the important institutional collections of American ordnance.

Its descriptive catalogue, listing and identifying the pieces, is a standard reference against which similar surviving objects can be compared and identified.

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