By admin on 23 April 2010
Works must relate to the origins, life, and legacies of the Confederate States of America and the Civil War.
Posted in News, People | Tagged Jefferson Davis Award, Museum of the Confederacy
By Staff Reports on 15 February 2010
[ 27 March 2010; 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Seminar entitled,”Binding the Wounds 1861-2010.”
Posted in Calendar, Conferences, Feature | Tagged Museum of the Confederacy
By Staff Reports on 13 January 2010
This symposium will be held in the Library of Virginia Lecture Hall.
Posted in Conferences, Events | Tagged Civil War, Library of Virginia, Museum of the Confederacy
By Staff Reports on 27 October 2009
[ 21 November 2009; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] The classic motion picture Shenandoah, starring Jimmy Stewart, is planned.
Posted in Calendar, Events | Tagged Byrd Theatre Foundation, Civil War, film, Museum of the Confederacy
By Staff Reports on 31 August 2009
[ 24 September 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Presidents Lincoln and Davis at Home is the topic of a talk to be given by renowned historian and author, Dr. William Seale, specialist in the history and restoration of American buildings at Alice Haynes Room, University of Richmond on Thursday, 24 September from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. This year’s lecture is intended to commemorate the bicentennial birthdays of Jefferson Davis (2008) and Abraham Lincoln (2009). The lecture is part of the Museum of the Confederacy’s annual Bottimore Lectures, made possible by the Roller-Bottimore Foundation, and is co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of History, Preservation Virginia, the Historic Richmond Foundation, and the Virginia Center for Architecture.
Posted in Calendar, Events | Tagged Museum of the Confederacy, Roller-Bottimore Foundation, White House, William Seale
By Linda Goin on 28 August 2009
For the first time, The Museum of the Confederacy’s (MOC) entire collection of 685 flags is available in a new searchable database located on the flag page of the museum’s Web site. Flags are arranged by accession number, with War Department captures toward the end of the 94-page document. Each entry includes a color photograph for most of the flags as well as its identification, history (when known), pattern, material, measurements, inscriptions, and battle honors, where present.
Posted in Feature | Tagged flags, Museum of the Confederacy
By Staff Reports on 27 August 2009
[ 19 September 2009; 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. ] How do museums know the history of their artifacts? How can you tell if your old documents and antiques are important or not? And how do you take care of that “old stuff”? Learn to identify and care for historic artifacts, while also learning a bit about how museum collections are researched and preserved in a seminar offered by the Museum of the Confederacy on Saturday, September 19, 2009 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. at Baines Books in Appomattox.
Posted in Calendar, Things | Tagged Baines Books, Museum of the Confederacy
By Staff Reports on 17 August 2009
[ 4 September 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Though the city has changed a great deal since the time when Jefferson Davis occupied the executive mansion as President, you can experience various places in the city he would have known by participating in a “Walking Tour of Jefferson Davis’s Richmond,” offered by the Museum of the Confederacy on September 4.
Posted in Calendar, Events, Places | Tagged Jefferson Davis, Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond
By Staff Reports on 5 May 2009
The Museum of the Confederacy is pleased to announce that Joseph T. Glatthaar’s General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse, published by Free Press, and Charles W. Mitchell’s Maryland Voices of the Civil War, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, are the recipients of its 39th annual Book Awards competition.
Posted in Things | Tagged Civil War, General Lee, Jefferson Davis Award, Museum of the Confederacy
By Staff Reports on 3 March 2009
The Museum of the Confederacy is now offering $2 off regular priced admission to residents of the City of Richmond, Chesterfield County and Henrico County.
Posted in News, Places | Tagged Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond Virginia
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