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| Remember that ending scene out of Indiana Jones where the Ark of the Covenant is boxed up and wheeled through an endless government warehouse? |
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| …but behind a series of highly alarmed doors… |
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At the age of 18, Adolf Hitler applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in
Vienna but was rejected. A number of Hitler’s paintings were seized by
the U.S. Army at the end of World War II and found a home at the center.
None of the confiscated Nazi art has ever been displayed, and the
curators thought them too controversial for this piece. The scene above
was filmed at the center for the documentary The Rape of Europa.
The collection also has a controversial side that has never been displayed.
Not a single piece in this massive collection is open to the public. Why is it kept under lock and key in a blackened warehouse?
Simple answer: Because there is no museum to house it.
The entire collection could be made accessible to the public, if the funds for a museum could be raised.
The Army Historical Foundation is in charge of raising the funds for the museum.
However, there are major fundraising hurdles to jump before the museum can be built. The foundation’s president recently told the Washington Post
that it has raised $76 million of the $175 million required for the
museum and predicts the museum could open in 2018. The plan is to build
the museum at Fort Belvoir.
But until then…
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