Plans For A Future Museum System
The Museum announced plans, in September 2007, to build a system of new museum sites around the state of Virginia. Citing diminishing returns on visitation to the original site, the concept for the "Museum of the Confederacy System" is to exhibit its vast collections in strategically located, high-traffic, tourist destinations that are also significant Civil War sites. Current plans are to build museums in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the Chancellorsville Battlefield; in Appomattox County, Virginia, in or near the town of Appomattox; and in Hampton, Virginia, “inside the moat” at Fort Monroe. The White House of the Confederacy will remain in the care of the Museum, and will be interpreted at its current, original site. The Museum plans to maintain a corporate headquarters and its research and preservation facility in Richmond, perhaps at the current site of the Museum. While Museum officials recognize that the plan for implementing this new initiative is aggressive, they plan to complete the bulk of it during the sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary of the Civil War, between 2011 and 2015.
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