800 guns (400 on display)

Created in 1856

Lexington, VA

• 1856, Superintendent Smith created the VMI Museum
• 2014 marks the 175th anniversary of VMI’s founding
• Three museums in a system
• 27,000 artifacts
• Henry Stewart Gun Collection

• 1935 Henry Stewart graduated Virginia Military Institute
• 1988 Henry Stewart gave his collection to VMI
• the largest collection of British Enfield Rifles in the US
• Patton’s personal M1 Garand
• XM-15 E1, one of the first experimental AR-15s
• 50 air guns Chronicle the evolution from 1650 to the present
• 1779 Girardoni 20 shot, 46 cal. repeating air rifle
• thirty-six Colt Patersons

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https://www.vmi.edu/museums-and-archives/vmi-museum/

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