The Signal Corps Museum

The mission of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Museum and Fort Gordon is to function as a permanent historical and educational institution at Fort Gordon, providing training and education to the soldiers, military dependents at Fort Gordon and to the general public on all aspects of the history of the Signal Corps, the development of Fort Gordon and vicinity, and the U.S. Army. The accuracy of the training and educational program is dependent upon the proper collection, recording, conservation, and research of artifacts, pictures, and other historical documentary materials. The museum is responsible for recommendations concerning the preservation, protection, development, and enhancement of historical buildings, monuments, works, and sites throughout the Fort Gordon Military Reservation. The museum serves as a medium of stimulating esprit de corps and of advancing knowledge of the Signal Corps, Fort Gordon and the United States Army. The exhibits trace the development of the Signal Corps from its beginning in 1860 , through the present. Highlights include: The Congressional Medal of Honor; artifacts from Albert J. Meyer, the founder of the Signal Corps and Civil War Signal Corps items such as the Beardslee Electro Magneto; circa 1870 meteorological office, Augusta, Georgia; signaling  equipment used out west circa 1880; Spanish-American war equipment such as the telephone used by General Wheeler at the battle of San Juan Hill; The Greeley expedition to the Artic; Signal Corps Aviation and  "Snoopy"; WWI "Hello Girls"; Trench Warfare; WWII Signal Message Center; Signal WACs" Korea; Signal Corps motion pictures and "Oscar"; Pigeons; Signals in Space; Cold War Viet Nam Prisoner of War and Signal Corps equipment; Desert Shield ; Eisenhower and Camp Gordon. The museum also has a number of traveling exhibits and information packets are  available upon request. The museum highlights the technology and wars in which signal men and women were prominent.