How has the Gettysburg experience changed?
Opening in April 2008, a new Museum and Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park serves as the ideal gateway to the Battlefield. With the new center, one of the world’s largest and most important Civil War collections is brought to life, with: • 12 galleries on the Civil War, its causes and consequences. Appropriately, the themes of the museum’s 11 permanent galleries are based on phrases within Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. • Original films throughout the galleries. • Voices theaters, featuring readings of letters, diaries and newspaper articles by commanders, common soldiers, civilians and correspondents. • Hands-on and interactive exhibits: high-tech experiences that put America’s turning point into perspective. • A new Refreshment Saloon, with samplings of foods reflective of the era. (Box lunches available.) • A new film, A New Birth of Freedom, which will immerse viewers in the sights and sounds of the events leading up to the battle, the battle itself and its aftermat
