Churchill Museum Designation Bill

Official: America's National Churchill Museum National Historic Landmark Act

IntroducedMarch 6, 2025

Public Lands and Natural ResourcesCongressional oversightGovernment studies and investigationsMonuments and memorialsHistoric sites and heritage areasMissouriWorld history

Why This Matters

This bill officially recognizes America's National Churchill Museum as a historic landmark, helping to preserve its significance and support educational programs. It aims to protect the museum while allowing for future studies on its management and importance.

If you visit the Churchill Museum, this bill helps ensure its preservation and educational programs for future generations.

Affects: Visitors to the Churchill Museum and the local community in Fulton, Missouri.

Summary

America's National Churchill Museum National Historic Landmark Act This bill designates the America’s National Churchill Museum, including the Winston Churchill Memorial, located at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, as the America’s National Churchill Museum National Historic Landmark. (Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a speech titled The Sinews of Peace, also widely known as the Iron Curtain Speech, at the college in 1946.) The bill permits the Department of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with public and private entities for the purposes of protecting historic resources at the landmark and providing educational and interpretive facilities for the public. Interior may provide technical and financial assistance to partner entities. The bill also directs Interior to conduct a special resource study to evaluate the national significance of the landmark and to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System. The study must consider alternatives to that designation for the preservation, protection, and interpretation of the landmark, and must include cost estimates associated with identified alternatives.