 Sign near main doorway | |
  Location of Museum | |
| Established | April 2008[1] |
|---|---|
| Location | Gettysburg NMP, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Coordinates | 39°48′41″N 77°13′33″W / 39.81139°N 77.22583°W |
| Visitors | 2 million[2] |
| Founder | Gettysburg Foundation |
| Owner | National Park Service[1] |
| Public transit access | Gettysburg National Military Park, rabbittransit |
| Nearest parking | Entrances from Baltimore Pike |
| Website | www |
The Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center is a Gettysburg National Military Park facility, with a museum about the American Civil War, the 1884 Gettysburg Cyclorama, and the tour center for licensed Battlefield Guides and for buses to see the Gettysburg Battlefield and Eisenhower National Historic Site.
The museum displays artifacts, including cannon, firearms, and uniforms, and includes an exhibit gallery and theater.[3] Additional facilities are a "computer resource room",[1] a bookstore with gifts, and a restaurant.[4]
- ^ a b c "About the Visitor Center" (commercial webpage). Gettysburg Museum & Visitor Center. GettysburgFoundation.org. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
- ^ Tom Huntington Archived September 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine "Gettysburg Redux," American Heritage, Spring/Summer 2008.
- ^ (22-minute A New Birth of Freedom about the American Civil War)
- ^ It Takes 6,000 Acres to tell a Story this Big (pamphlet), Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: The Gettysburg Foundation, 2008