Gettysburg National Museum
| Gettysburg National Museum | |
| Electric Map Museum, Rosensteel Museum[1] | |
| American Civil War museum | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Adams |
| District | Gettysburg Historic |
| NPS unit | Gettysburg NMP |
| Location | summit of Cemetery Hill at the Taneytown Road across from National Cemetery west entrance |
| Opened | 1921 |
| - Acquired | tbd |
| - Replaced | 2008 Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center |
The Gettysburg National Museum was both a Gettysburg Battlefield visitor attraction on the south border of the Gettysburg borough and the corporation that owned and operated the facility. Established by George D. Rosensteel after working at his uncle's 1888 Round Top Museum, the facility had an interpretive Battle of Gettysburg map using incandescent lights and was acquired by the National Park Service for use as the 1974–2008 Gettysburg National Military Park museum and visitor center after the Cyclorama Building at Gettysburg and before the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center.
The building was expanded numerous times to accommodate increases in tourists (e.g., an auditorium for the electric map), particularly during the post-war 1950s "Golden Age of Capitalism" in the United States. The museum was purchased by the United States in 1967[2] and demolished in 2009 (the parking area on the west of the Gettysburg National Cemetery remains).
References
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- ↑ "Pickett Spur New Addition To Park Relic Collection" (Google News Archive). The Gettysburg Times (Times and News Publishing Company). April 2, 1975. Retrieved 2011-11-24.