TARGET AUDIENCES OF THE PROPOSED NATIONAL WAR MUSEUM

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Primary Audiences:

• Active duty, reserve, and retired servicemen and women and their families; members of the National Guard; civilian members of the Department of Defense.

• Members of veteran’s organizations.

• The White House, Congress and Supreme Court.

• Community residents in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland region.

• Museum professionals.

• Military historians and other scholars.

• The media, including digital and traditional.

• Today’s and tomorrow’s youth, including elementary, middle school and high school students and particularly their Social Studies, World History, and American History teachers; college students and faculty.  The programming of the National War Museum will foster civic education. The spotlight is on National History Day each June.

 

 

 

Other Important Segments:

• Americans of all backgrounds from across the United States.  Some domestic visitors might not have had an opportunity to visit a war museum ever before, or only minimally interested in doing so.  For this group, a central location may motivate and attract a family that may spend at least a few hours learning about our military history.

• Visitors from overseas, who like many mainstream American visitors, don’t have time nor the budget to visit other military museums.

• Members of hundreds of embassies and international organizations based in the Washington, DC area (The World Bank, Organization of American States, to name just a few).

• Management and staff of Federal Agencies.

• Professionals attending conferences. 

• Members of other cultural institutions in the greater Washington, DC area such as the Library of Congress and the National Archives of the United States.