Virginia Museum of the Civil War — Attraction in New Market

A great museum to go to it is has so much stuff and they keep adding new things all the time directly from the Civil War they try to keep an accurate as possible they try to keep up to date things as they find them and get them it's so much to see there it actually took a while to go through it all and as I said they keep adding things from the last time we were there till the newer time that we were there each time we've been there and they've added more things and got more things and it is a very good one to even do some research yet too the staff there are very friendly and very helpful this is great for the whole family young and old it's good for people that are history Buffs and Civil War Buffs it's good for the whole family's young and old and you will learn the real stuff they really do try to help you out to find what you're looking for their website has some good information and stuff whenever you can do some research and you will be surprised what you can find there and that you'll see you'll learn a lot we do highly recommend a visit to here you will not be...

Talk about a trip to crazy! If you're passing through and you're a New Yorker, then you know our schools teach us how terrible Southerners were during the civil war, where we fought to help free slaves. This place is VERY Pro-South and has more confederate flags than you'll care to see. It's a shame to realize there's a museum our tax dollars pay for that almost forgets that the Confederacy shouldn't be promoted in any way. It's like Germany having a pro-Nazi museum and hails all the incredible things those hard fighting Nazis did for the nation. Seriously, the craziest place I've ever visited in my life. It's a GREAT museum that shares lots of Civil War history but a WEE bit crazy. "Our boys did great, fighting to their last breathe and..." and what are you talking about? Hahaha! Crazy, crazy, crazy! Especially if you're a Yankee. It's pro-south/ pro-Confederacy. It's super weird to experience and I'm a huge...

The museum does a good job preserving the battlefield site and the artifacts, and you will find a timeline and a weapons collection that are informative and well presented. Where the museum fails is in providing the context to understand the interests that ultimately lead the nation into a war. The movie portraits the bravery and gallantry of a group of young men at the cost of justifying the use of minors as soldiers, not to mention the absolute absence of the role of slavery as a key aspect of the confrontation. For a place dedicated to educate, the museum does a disservice by perpetuating the Just Cause myth of a South attacked by the North for it's decision to secede while ignoring that as a society it was based on the violation of basic...