What is the Campaign to Preserve Gettysburg?
The changes at Gettysburg are made possible through the public-private partnership between the National Park Service and the Gettysburg Foundation. By raising the necessary funds to help restore and preserve this national treasure for future generations, the partnership has worked to: • Provide the American people with a state-of-the-art Museum and Visitor Center. • Ensure high quality interpretation and educational opportunities. • Conserve and fully protect the Gettysburg Cyclorama painting. • Protect and provide for proper display of the park’s collection of 300,000 civil war artifacts and 700,000 archival items – one of the largest and most significant Civil War era collections in the world. • Rehabilitate significant portions of the battlefield, including removal of outdated and poorly sited visitor facilities and parking lots from the Union battle line on Cemetery Ridge, where nearly 1,000 Union soldiers were killed, wounded or captured on July 3, 1863. • Acquire development ease
