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Article: Confederacy museum struggles to stay open.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 26, 2005
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Byline: William Connery, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Museum of the Confederacy comprises two buildings. One is a 1971 structure that stores and displays a priceless collection of Confederate memorabilia, obtained from the 1890s to the present. The other is the White House of the Confederacy, built in 1818, which served as the home and office of Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the war.
The museum recently has suffered a significant drop-off in attendance because of crowding by the adjoining medical college campus of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). The museum is nearly surrounded by the medical college's multistory buildings.
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