Sacred ground…treasured artifacts…a revered Civil War battlefield

New Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center - Opening in 2008 at Gettysburg National Military Park

The Gettysburg Foundation is dedicated to helping people understand the events and meaning of Gettysburg. At the heart of the Foundation’s Campaign to Preserve Gettysburg is the new Museum and Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park, currently under construction and scheduled to open in spring 2008. Here are highlights of this magnificent new center:

• 139,000-square-foot facility designed to blend into the rural Pennsylvania countryside
• Located adjacent to the battlefield, but carefully sited so it is not visible from the park’s major interpretive points
• Designed to evoke a sense of events in 1863 while providing a 21st-century museum experience with a rotunda gallery, main museum gallery and theater experience 
• Cyclorama Gallery displaying the historic and recently conserved Gettysburg Cyclorama painting
• Displays of the park’s priceless collection designed to immerse visitors in the stories of the Civil War era and the Battle of Gettysburg
• Interactive stations throughout the museum, a computer resource center, book and museum store, educational facilities for teacher workshops, classroom use and distance learning programs.
• “Refreshment Saloon” offering Civil War-era foods and recipes