Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum, The
1805 Pine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-735-8196
"The oldest chartered Civil War institution in the United States," this museum was founded in 1888, by veteran Union Army, Navy and Marine corps officers "to preserve the history of the Civil War and to promote public education through the collection, preservation and display of artifacts and written and photographic documents." Housed in a former private residence built in 1858, the museum’s nine galleries of displays and exhibits "maintain the largest single assemblage of Civil War related material outside government institutions." These include more than 3,000 artifacts, more than 7,000 photographs, hundreds of art works, and close to 400 cubic feet of archival material. The library contains over 7,000 volumes, "one of the foremost collections of material related to the Civil War."
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