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FYI to those of you who use the GNMP collection, or had planned to.
Park artifacts being moved; no public access beginning Jan. 18
BY SCOT PITZER
Gettysburg Times [Gettysburg, Penn.]
January 3, 2008
Public access to the Gettysburg National Military Park museum collection is being suspended for nine months, as the one million artifacts are being moved to a new $105 million park facility, presently under construction along the Baltimore Pike.
The park’s collection of historic photographs, Civil War letters, uniforms, flags, diaries and maps that are now stored in research rooms won’t be available to researchers until the fall of 2008.
“The museum displays in our current visitor center are still available for the public and will remain available through the last day of our operations in the building,” said GNMP spokeswoman Katie Lawhon “This closure only affects access to the collections that are not on display.
Beginning Jan. 18, the park is transporting the artifact collection from its current facility — located along Taneytown Road — to its future home, presently being built along the Baltimore Pike, south of Gettysburg.
“For the next six months, the collection... will be packed and moved,” said Greg Goodell, the park’s Supervisor of Museum Services. “The piece by piece packing, and unpacking process for collections going into exhibits, and collections going into storage is so time sensitive that it makes it impossible to accommodate the researchers and research requests we normally have.”
Park officials expect the entire collection to be open by the fall season. The new museum and visitor center is expected to open in April.
“We regret the inconvenience this temporary closure may cause, and we will keep the public informed of our progress and when we can reopen our new research facilities to the public,” Goodell said.
As part of a comprehensive $125 million dollar project — which includes the construction of a new museum and visitor center, as well as the demolition of the current facility, and the rehab of that area to its 1863 Civil War appearance — the new 140,000 square-foot complex will include a large research area.
Eric
Park artifacts being moved; no public access beginning Jan. 18
BY SCOT PITZER
Gettysburg Times [Gettysburg, Penn.]
January 3, 2008
Public access to the Gettysburg National Military Park museum collection is being suspended for nine months, as the one million artifacts are being moved to a new $105 million park facility, presently under construction along the Baltimore Pike.
The park’s collection of historic photographs, Civil War letters, uniforms, flags, diaries and maps that are now stored in research rooms won’t be available to researchers until the fall of 2008.
“The museum displays in our current visitor center are still available for the public and will remain available through the last day of our operations in the building,” said GNMP spokeswoman Katie Lawhon “This closure only affects access to the collections that are not on display.
Beginning Jan. 18, the park is transporting the artifact collection from its current facility — located along Taneytown Road — to its future home, presently being built along the Baltimore Pike, south of Gettysburg.
“For the next six months, the collection... will be packed and moved,” said Greg Goodell, the park’s Supervisor of Museum Services. “The piece by piece packing, and unpacking process for collections going into exhibits, and collections going into storage is so time sensitive that it makes it impossible to accommodate the researchers and research requests we normally have.”
Park officials expect the entire collection to be open by the fall season. The new museum and visitor center is expected to open in April.
“We regret the inconvenience this temporary closure may cause, and we will keep the public informed of our progress and when we can reopen our new research facilities to the public,” Goodell said.
As part of a comprehensive $125 million dollar project — which includes the construction of a new museum and visitor center, as well as the demolition of the current facility, and the rehab of that area to its 1863 Civil War appearance — the new 140,000 square-foot complex will include a large research area.
Eric
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