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The National Museum of the Pacific War currently has in its care approximately 43,000 historically significant items, including 10,000 unique photographs and more than 3,000 oral histories of Pacific War veterans. The collections continue to grow as the World War II generation passes and we find ourselves the beneficiary and guardian of many important individual collections. With approximately 1,000 items on display in the Admiral Nimitz Museum and the George H. W. Bush Gallery, the remaining collections are currently housed in a number of temporary storage facilities. 
The purpose of the Center for Pacific War Studies is to bring these collections together in a single conservation and research facility that will meet all AAM standards for collections stewardship, including the effective care, preservation and management of the collections, the conduct of collections related research, and the provision of appropriate public access to the collections. The Center for Pacific War Studies will offer fully secure, climate controlled storage for the current collections and for future acquisitions, quarantine facilities, a conservation lab, work spaces for staff and visiting researchers, a three-thousand-plus volume research library with 
furnished reading room, and access to a research network connecting the Center with other institutions and collections throughout the country. The Center for Pacific War Studies will make available for the first time to historians, students and the public, through the digitization of documents, photographs and oral histories, much of the deep and often unknown history of the War.