About Us

The Holley Museum of Military History is a military collection of diorama, models and artifacts housed at the Ramada Hotel in Downtown Topeka.

At the present time the museum features three galleries, named after world leaders. The first gallery is the Winston Spencer Churchill Gallery and features artifacts from World War II in England.

The second Gallery is the Ronald Wilson Reagan Gallery and features cold war exhibits as well as several United States Navy Artifacts. A German World War two case of artifacts and an Air Force One exhibit are also featured.

The third Gallery is the Dwight David Eisenhower Gallery and features exhibits honoring Kansas War Heroes, a helicopter exhibit, several large World War II dioramas and a case full of World War I artifacts.

Many of the artifacts in the museum have been collected by Mr. Holley from various locations through out Europe, Russia, the Far East, Australia, Hawaii, and other areas around the world.

The museum is a mixture of out of the box scale models, professional armor and aircraft models and hand crafted dioramas. Also included in the museum are real artifacts representing many major conflicts through out history.

One of the most frequent questions asked of Holley and his volunteers is, "What is a diorama?" The answer is a diorama represents a moment in time. The Gibraltar, Pegasus Bridge, V-1 and V-2 rockets, and the World War I dioramas are very detailed.