This Website is sponsored by the White Sands Missile Range Historical Foundation
(Not Part of The Department of Defense)
dedicated to the support of the White Sands Missile Range Museum to collect, house, catalogue, preserve, display, and
maintain the history of White Sands Missile Range.
Construction Master Plan for the
Museum and Learning Center
at White Sands Missile Range
The Historical Foundation’s primary mission is to secure funding for a
permanent Museum and Learning Center at White Sands Missile Range that
will preserve and exhibit the artifacts and archival materials necessary
to memorialize and document the events, organizations, corporations, and
individuals who contributed to the history of outstanding achievements
at White Sands Missile Range.
The Studio D Architects of Las Cruces Site Master Plan provides a phased
approach that accommodates expansion in increments, and ensures
continuity of Museum operations with the addition of functionally
complete increments. The Master Plan retains the existing Administration
and Gift Shop building with a revised façade that is consistent with the
overall architectural image illustrated above—in the above rendition,
the existing building is the structure to the right with windows. The
architectural intent is that the southern half (right in the rendition)
reflects a merger of the styles and colors of the current Museum
Administration and Gift Shop Building with those of other buildings
visible to the South. The northern half is intended to preserve some of
the traditional lines, colors and features, and transition to the high
technology lines and shapes of the missiles and rockets on display in
the Missile Park immediately to the North.
Studio D Architects'
Museum Rendition (click Images for large view)
Front View from Headquarters Avenue
Birdseye View from Headquarters Avenue
Museum Floor Plan
Rear Birdseye View
Phase I is a 7,971 square foot, environmentally controlled Exhibit Hall
and reception area that functionally replaces the current temporary
Exhibit Hall, but retains the structure for other uses until Phase III
expansion. The Phase I Exhibit Hall and entrance are the front
structures illustrated in the left half of the rendition.
Phase II is a 10,948 square foot Exhibit Hall and Theater addition.
Combined, the Phase I and II Exhibit Hall additions double the exhibit
floor space of the current 6,000 sq ft temporary facility. In addition,
the proposed Exhibit Halls will provide two to three times the current
Exhibit Hall vertical space with a perimeter observation mezzanine.
Phase III provides a 8,743 square foot Resource and Learning Center,
which includes archives and storage. Construction of Phase III requires
removal of the temporary building that is the current Exhibit Hall.
The vision of the Foundation is to secure funding for the expansion of
the Museum and Learning Center at White Sands Missile Range. Its
immediate goal is to raise the funds necessary for construction of the
Master Plan’s Phase I. Your participation in this project will be
greatly appreciated. The form linked at the bottom of this page can be
used for memberships and donations, as well as, order books, DVDs, Logo
Pins, Art Prints, and place orders for Signature Plaza bricks.
Multi-year pledges are encouraged. Contact the Foundation President via
e-mail at president@wsmr-history.org for information on Planned Giving.
Memberships
Individual Foundation memberships of $25
or more
per year include a 10% discount at the Museum Gift Shop and a Quarterly
Newsletter. Click Here for Membership/Donation Form
Merchandise Sales
Books - Hembrillo $20
All others $10
Click on book name
to see Front Cover and read synopsis.
3. Jewels of the Desert
Collections from the first dump at White
Sands Proving Ground – Duran, Finney, Laumbach, Ydurate, Eidenback,
Boehm (1997)
4. A Number of Things
Baldy Russell, Estey City and the Ozanne Stage; Historic Ranching and Mining on the US Army White Sands Missile
Range, New Mexico (1994, 162 Pages)
5. Home On The Range
Oral Recollections of Early Ranch life on
the White Sands Missile Range, NM (1994, 111
Pages)
7. School Days
Education During the Ranching Era of the US Army
White Sands Missile Range, NM (1997)
V-2 DVDs -
$25 Each
Art Prints - $25 Each
Framed prints are $95 Sentinels of White Sands
a Shari Reese Original 15x19 Full-color Limited Edition Prints
(click Image for large
view)
Brick sizes range from the standard 4"x
8" size to the largest size of 24"x 24"
l 4x8 inch $65 donation 14 char/line, 3 lines l
8x8 inch $110 donation 14 char/line, 6 lines l
12x12 inch $210 donation 21 char/line, 9 lines l
24x24 inch $840 donation 42 char/line, 21 lines
Museum and Learning Center 
