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Comments:	Liberty Memorial in Kansas City houses the official World War I museum of the United States. Designated in 2004, it greatly expands the original facilities that are still housed on the main deck of the Liberty Memorial: Exhibition Hall and Memory Hall. The National World War I Museum tells the story of the Great War and related global events from their origins before 1914 through the 1918 Armistice and 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Visitors enter the 32,000-square-foot facility across a glass bridge above a field of 9,000 red poppies, each one representing 1,000 World War I combatant deaths.<p> Hours of operation: Regular hours Tuesday through Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Closed Monday. Summer hours (Memorial Day to Labor Day) Monday through Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Closed New Years day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas day. If you ask nicely you may be allowed in without admission ticket to just press the pennies. Plenty of free parking in front.<br> Admission (Admission including tower is extra): Adult $18.00, Senior (Ages 65+) $14.00, Military (With Military ID) $14.00, Youth (Ages 6–15) $10.00, Children (Under 6) Free.<p> <b>Machine 3</b> (Placed April 2017) is inside the gift shop, past the admissions desk to the left as you enter the building. Cost to press, 51¢ each design. Designs all have a pennycollector.com beaded border with 'National WWI Museum & Memorial':<br> 1. (H) French Renault FT tank with 'FT-17'.<br> 2. (V) Poppy.<br> 3. (V) Liberty Memorial.<br> 4. (H) Harley Davidson J model motorcycle with '1917 Harley Davidson'.<p> Retired 1: designs all had a beaded border with 'Liberty Memorial Museum': 1. (H) Poppies with 'Where Poppies Grow', 2. (H) Biplane with 'British DH-2', 3. (H) Motorcycle with '1917 Harley Davidson', 4. (V) The Memorial Pillar with 'Kansas City Missouri.<p> Retired 2: Designs all had a pennycollector.com beaded border with 'National WWI Museum': 1. (H) French Renault FT tank with 'FT-17', 2. (V) Soldier with a gun in a ditch with 'Liberty Memorial Kansas City', 3. (V) Poppy, 4.(H) Harley Davidson J model motorcycle with '1917 Harley Davidson'.<p> G.P.S. coordinates: Latitude: 39° 4' 51'' N Longitude: 94° 35' 10 W''<br> Google Maps coordinates: 3CJ7+7H Kansas City, Missouri<p> Machine 3 was installed April 2017. <p> May 21, 2023. The penny machine is speed rolling well centered with excellent images on 95% copper pre-1982 pennies. MWHTH<p>
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National World War I Museum and Memorial

Machine Locations > Missouri

2 Memorial Drive
Kansas City, MO , 64108-4603

Phone: (816) 784-1918

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Liberty Memorial in Kansas City houses the official World War I museum of the United States. Designated in 2004, it greatly expands the original facilities that are still housed on the main deck of the Liberty Memorial: Exhibition Hall and Memory Hall. The National World War I Museum tells the story of the Great War and related global events from their origins before 1914 through the 1918 Armistice and 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Visitors enter the 32,000-square-foot facility across a glass bridge above a field of 9,000 red poppies, each one representing 1,000 World War I combatant deaths.

Hours of operation: Regular hours Tuesday through Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Closed Monday. Summer hours (Memorial Day to Labor Day) Monday through Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Closed New Years day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas day. If you ask nicely you may be allowed in without admission ticket to just press the pennies. Plenty of free parking in front.
Admission (Admission including tower is extra): Adult $18.00, Senior (Ages 65+) $14.00, Military (With Military ID) $14.00, Youth (Ages 6–15) $10.00, Children (Under 6) Free.

Machine 3 (Placed April 2017) is inside the gift shop, past the admissions desk to the left as you enter the building. Cost to press, 51¢ each design. Designs all have a pennycollector.com beaded border with 'National WWI Museum & Memorial':
1. (H) French Renault FT tank with 'FT-17'.
2. (V) Poppy.
3. (V) Liberty Memorial.
4. (H) Harley Davidson J model motorcycle with '1917 Harley Davidson'.

Retired 1: designs all had a beaded border with 'Liberty Memorial Museum': 1. (H) Poppies with 'Where Poppies Grow', 2. (H) Biplane with 'British DH-2', 3. (H) Motorcycle with '1917 Harley Davidson', 4. (V) The Memorial Pillar with 'Kansas City Missouri.

Retired 2: Designs all had a pennycollector.com beaded border with 'National WWI Museum': 1. (H) French Renault FT tank with 'FT-17', 2. (V) Soldier with a gun in a ditch with 'Liberty Memorial Kansas City', 3. (V) Poppy, 4.(H) Harley Davidson J model motorcycle with '1917 Harley Davidson'.

G.P.S. coordinates: Latitude: 39° 4' 51'' N Longitude: 94° 35' 10 W''
Google Maps coordinates: 3CJ7+7H Kansas City, Missouri

Machine 3 was installed April 2017.

May 21, 2023. The penny machine is speed rolling well centered with excellent images on 95% copper pre-1982 pennies. MWHTH

Machine 3 - 2017

Retired 1

Retired 2