America's Natl Churchill Museum

Our drive to Fayetteville is taking us through Springville, Missouri. So as I usually do, I googled interesting things to see on our drive and up pops Fulton, Missouri; America's National Churchill Museum. This was a really interesting stop... Can't believe we actually tumbled on this because Fulton is a pretty small town about 20 miles outside of Jefferson City, the capital.
This museum, housed under a relocated 17th century English church, is dedicated to a study of Churchill's life and serves as America's memorial to him. The church/museum is located at Westminster College. The story is really interesting.
The church was relocated and rebuilt in commemoration of Churchill's "sinews of peace" speech that he gave at the college back in 1946. Churchill gave this speech because Truman invited him on behalf of the college. So on March 5, 1946 Truman and Churchill were both there. The "sinews of peace" speech is also known as there Iron Curtain speech. In most respects this speech defines and initiates the start of the cold war.
So how does this involve the relocated English church??
40 years later the college wanted to commemorate the event. Their idea was to salvage one of the many Christopher Wren designed churches that had been destroyed with the bombing of London. What remained of the church, stone by stone was brought to Westminster College and rebuilt. The church was gorgeous and below the church is a very extensive collection of artifacts and information regarding Churchill's life. We just didn't have enough time to really spends time in the Churchill Museum, just too many miles to drive before end of day. We buzzed it, but it looked great! The whole history of the church and the start of the cold war was so fascinating!Read more