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Wisconsin Veterans Museum to re-open in July

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** ADVANCE FOR Monday April 10 ** Passersby make their way in front of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison. Wis., Friday, April 7, 2006. State Veterans Affairs Secretary John Scocos says Wisconsin needs a bigger, better veterans museum. Scocos says he's considering plans for renovations at the state Veterans Museum, including a new building, a "Hall of Heroes" and the facility's first exhibits commemorating post-Desert Storm conflicts. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

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MADISON — The Wisconsin Veterans Museum plans to reopen next month after state officials shut it down for 16 months amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The museum announced Thursday it will re-open July 1 with new exhibits on Madison natives Roberta Wells and Akira Toki.

Wells was one of the first female Marines. Toki, the son of Japanese immigrants, volunteered for the U.S. Army shortly after Pearl Harbor and earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star.

A Madison middle school was named after him in 1993.

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