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| Location | Kincora,Loudoun County,Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 39°02′21″N77°26′24″W / 39.039103043194224°N 77.43993777176611°W /39.039103043194224; -77.43993777176611 |
| Visitors | Expected 100,000 |
| Founder | Charles Pinck |
| Curator | Patrick Gallagher |
| Architect | Curtis Fentress |
| Owner | OSS Society |
| Website | nationalintelligencemuseum |
TheNational Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations is a future private museum in the United States, planned for the area ofKincora, Virginia.[1] As a private museum project of theOSS Society, it was recognized in theNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023. It was designed by architectCurtis Fentress and Fentress Studios with roughly 14,000 square feet (1,300 m2) of exhibit space, a 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) lobby, and 200-seat educational space.[1][2] Overall, the museum is expected to be between 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) and 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2). They expect to host around 100,000 visitors each year.[3] The projected cost of the museum in 2018 was projected to be $81million in 2018,[4] but that projection had increased to $93million in 2019.[5] By 2023, that number had risen to $123,000.[3]Patrick Gallagher is designing the museum exhibit spaces.
In 2015, the OSS Society contacted the Canadian company Lord Cultural Resources to develop the master plan for the museum. Lord drew up plans for staffing, exhibition user experience, capital projections, and other aspects of creating the museum.[6] After this, Fentress Studios was contacted to design the architectural plans. In 2018, theStarr Foundation contributed a gift of $10million to the capital funding.[7]
Originally, when Charles Pink, the President of theOSS Society, announced the creation of the museum and went on funding rounds throughout the DC Beltway area, his plan was to open the museum by 2021. His primary motivation was to honor the less-than-100 living members of theOffice of Strategic Services (OSS) before they died.[5] However, these plans were interrupted by theCOVID-19 pandemic, and the groundbreaking was consistently delayed.
When he was interviewed in 2023, President Pink said that the OSS Society still had plans to build the museum, and told reporters his plans were to break ground on the museum in July 2025 with a target for opening in late 2027.[8]
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