Fredericksburg Area Museum — Attraction in Fredericksburg

This museum is free admission and they accept donations. For the most accurate historical experience, start in the basement as, at least in 2024, this remains a competent historical section of the museum. There is a tiny section in a corner detailing the life of a practicing Medical Doctor in Fredericksburg prior to World War I, who was black. I would have loved to have learned more about this inspiring first of Fredericksburg history, who was Killed In Action in Europe during the Great War. I was planning to donate $50. Instead, the Fredericksburg Area Museum philosophy is bent, wrongly themed. The Fredericksburg Area Museum has been taken over and is superintendended by woke Black Lives Matter LBGTQ+ curators. No doubt the curators are rewriting history. The museum's presentation is that Fredericksburg, Virginia has always been woke, Black Lives Matter, and LBGTQ+ and most of the people living in the colonial era were living loud with woke, BLM, LBGTQ+ pride. I suspect a 1619 exhibit unveiling in the future to continue their delusional rewriting of history. This completely ruins the museum. I quickly left. I do not recommend the Fredericksburg...

Disappointing museum. If you really want to learn about Fredericksburg, just read a book. You can learn more about Fredericksburg and its history after 5 minutes of research online than spending an entire hour here. This "museum" has a full 3 floors of space, yet there's very little information (and artifacts) about the town and the most important historical events have been scrubbed. But, it's really no surprise considering who leads Fredericksburg now. In fact, nearly all museums are being purged, cancelled, and propagandized by the "unWoke." This museum goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid displays or information about the founding of the city, its unique history, and Yankee barbarity once they arrived, attacked, and invaded this colonial town. Very sad how history is being manipulated, twisted, censored, and...

Small but fine local museum in and of Fredriksburg. Being myself German it was very interesting to read some letters from 2nd WW soldiers to their spouses at home. How the single person experienced the war, especially when Hiroshima was atomized and a single soldier was just hoping the war ends so that he can get home to his loved ones. Overall the museum has its focus on civil war, great war, 2nd WW and it is well equipped with material for that. Aside from the exhibition of the wars, there was a exhibtion of the old bank and their equipment in the old times. I found that interesting, becuase I never thought about banking in the old times. In the upper floor are old posters from the 40s that I think pointing out the values that the society had and why it was worth to defend it. Its...