General George Patton Museum of Leadership

This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as reFill (documentation) and Citation bot (documentation). (September 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

General George Patton Museum of Leadership

History museum
Public transit access	Highway 31W
Website	generalpatton.org/about-us

The General George Patton Museum of Leadership is a publicly accessible museum on

.

History

The museum began as housing and storage for many captured enemy military vehicles and equipment sent to Fort Knox during WWII by Patton's

, the Museum continues to train the Army's future and current generation of leaders.

Operating hours

Museum entry is free and open to the public Tuesday to Saturday, 9am to 430pm (Eastern Standard Time) excluding federal holidays.^[3] As of 2021 the Museum is publicly accessible from highway 31W and is part of Fort Knox but does not require entry onto the military installation to access it.

Exhibits

The museum possesses a collection of over 3,000 artifacts with more than 600 personal items belonging to the late General Patton and his family to include General Patton's famed ivory-handled pistols (a

.

Several props are on exhibit from the 1970 film Patton as used by leading actor George C. Scott such as the prop pistols carried and parade helmet worn by Scott in the famous opening sequence.

Perhaps best known prior to 2012 for its large collection of tanks, many of these larger items accompanied the move of the Armor school and are now part of the

is also currently on exhibit.

In 2012, one of the last remaining WWII barracks buildings on Fort Knox was relocated to the Museum grounds and gradually restored using donated funds. The barracks opened for public exhibition in May 2021. The two-story wooden building built c.1940 housed a 63-man platoon with separate living quarters for NCOs. The entire ground floor including restored latrine and shower area is accessible to the general public and houses several displays depicting life at Fort Knox from the 1940s to 1970s.

See also

• George S. Patton Jr.
• George S. Patton IV
• Patton Monument (West Point)
• General George S. Patton Memorial Museum, Chiriaco Summit, California
• United States Army Ordnance Museum
• List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area

References

External links

• "Museum at Fort Knox getting updated".
  Lexington Herald Leader
  . Associated Press. September 28, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
• "Patton Museum in the midst of change". WDRB. October 12, 2011. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
• "Fort Knox reduces hours, closes main exhibit at Patton Museum for renovations". Fox News. November 2, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
• Dube, Ron (June 23, 1991). "Museum shows there's more than gold at Fort Knox". The Telegraph. Retrieved July 11, 2016.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Patton Museum.

Wikiquote has quotations related to George S. Patton.

• Official website