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Museum of the Confederacy to Break Ground on Appomattox Site

September 9, 2010 – 4:15 pmNo Comment

The Museum of the Confederacy is set to break ground on it’s new Appomattox site on September. 23. The project is expected to be completed in spring 2012 on the 11,700-square-foot museum housing Civil War artifacts.

Architect Carlton Abbott’s rendering of the MOC-Appomattox site

The main exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy Appomattox will focus on the end of the war, and the reunification of the United States.

The Appomattox museum is part of planned multi-site museum system, with three more museums proposed for Fredericksburg, Fort Monroe and Spotsylvania.

Museum of the Confederacy
1201 E. Clay Street
Richmond, VA 23219

www.moc.org

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