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CIVILIANS: Unionists and
Secessionists
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AFRICAN-AMERICANS: Free and Enslaved
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SOLDIERS: Union and Confederate
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PARTNERSHIPS:
We will work closely with
both preservation organizations to provide
exhibits that educate about the importance
of preservation and conservation. This
appreciation will translate into support
for battlefield preservation and
conservation.
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Civil War Preservation
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Center for Civil War
Photography
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The National Civil War
Life Museum
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OUR MISSION
To
operate a national museum and research center that
preserves and interprets the human story of the
American Civil War and connects the lives of all
people of that era to the Nation today.
OUR VISION
We
will achieve our mission by building the National
Civil War Life Museum in Spotsylvania Courthouse,
VA. This facility will be home to The Civil War
Life Museum, The War in Photography and The Civil
War Remembrance exhibits. The museum will offer
excellent Civil War study tours to youth and school
groups. The facility will also include a 100-seat
theater for our unique Civil War Life in 3-D
theater program, a research library and study
center, a conference center and a rotating exhibit
gallery.
OUR FOCUS
Our
focus is on people. The National Civil War Life
Museum will not concentrate just on the lives of
Civil War soldiers. In its inclusive coverage of
that era, considerable attention will also be
devoted to the lives of ordinary people. Our museum
exhibits will provide a foundation for
understanding the lives of those who fought in the
war on both sides and on its effect on the
well-being of civilians, both free and enslaved. We
will take history, and make it "their story." This
is important because too many museums focus on a
specific cause or single event and only serve a
select audience. In contrast, The National Civil
War Life Museum will be a place where a broader
audience of people can come to learn research and
draw their own conclusions of this defining event
in America's history.
OUR MUSEUM
Some museums try to impress
visitors with grand halls that are sparsely
populated with pictures, reproductions and
exhibits. We exist not to display relics, but to
assist the relics in telling the human story.
Although many issues of the Civil War are
controversial, our emphasis is on interpretation
and not on a particular agenda or cause. The
museum's role will be to provide the visitor with
the facts and let each person arrive at their own
opinion or decision regarding their Civil War era
area of interest.
The
National Civil War Life Museum will be the
cornerstone for the new Spotsylvania Courthouse
Village that is being built by the W.J. Vakos
Company. The village will combine
shopping, restaurants, an Inn and private homes to
create a village center in the Courthouse area. The
museum will be an economic development engine for
county businesses and the Rappahannock Region.
OUR LOCATION
Our
area is the "Crossroads of the Civil War." Four
major battles took place on Fredericksburg and
Spotsylvania soil during the Civil War, scarring
the countryside and forever sealing this area in
America's history books. Today, each site is a
protected battlefield that is maintained by the
National Park Service. They are Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, The Wilderness and Spotsylvania
Courthouse. Chatham Manor, Massaponax Church and
the "Stonewall" Jackson Shrine are nearby sites
that were an integral part of this epic story.
Visit our current location's website at the
Civil War Life Soldier's
Museum for further information.
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