our museum leadership team
Has the specialized experience, training, and professional education
to make this museum a world class institution
Museum Curator
The Museum Curator, Sarah A. Burgos, is a professional scholar of American history who specializes in textile preservation. She has directed major conservation projects to save priceless historical flags and has curated more than twenty public exhibitions.
Before and After Conservation. One of the last approximately ten remaining national flags from the Mexican American War (1846-1848)
After Conservation National Flag
Before and After Conservation. An expertly hand-embroidered Commonwealth of Virginia flag from 1876.
After Conservation Commonwealth of Virginia Flag
Command Historian
Alexander Barnes is a professional military historian with thirty years of experience in the Marine Corps and the Army. Some of his most recent books are Play Ball!: Doughboys and Baseball During the Great War and “To Hell with the Kaiser”: America Prepares for War, 1916–1918
Major General Timothy P. Williams
Adjutant General of Virginia
Brigadier General James W. Ring
Director of the Joint Staff of Virginia
Command Chief Master Sergeant
James J. Profita
Virginia National Guard Senior Enlisted Leader