Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center is the place to begin your visit to the battlefield. Here you will learn how to visit the park and what to see around Gettysburg. For visitor safety, all bags are subject to inspection. Bags prohibited inside the Museum & Visitor Center building include cooler bags, luggage, and bags with wheels. The Museum and Visitor Center is privately owned and operated by the Gettysburg Foundation, in partnership with the National Park Service.

Eisenhower National Historic Site is the home and farm of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Located adjacent to the Gettysburg Battlefield, the farm served the President as a weekend retreat and a meeting place for world leaders. With its peaceful setting and view of South Mountain, it was a much-needed respite from Washington and a backdrop for efforts to reduce Cold War tensions.

Tour the President’s home, enjoy a self-guided walk around the farm, or join a park ranger for an exploration of 1950s Secret Service operations or a look back at WWII and Ike’s problems as Supreme Commander.

Children (ages 6-12) may become Junior Rangers by doing activities in the Junior Ranger booklet. New rangers are awarded a badge and certificate!

Destination Gettysburg offers a self guided walking tour of Historic Downtown Gettysburg. Walk the streets where soldiers fought, civilians lived, and President Abraham Lincoln paraded to the National Cemetery for the 1863 dedication services. Learn more about life in Gettysburg before, during, and days after the fateful days of the Civil War. Enjoy the historic buildings, many dating back to pre-Civil War times.

Free copies of the tour brochure are available at the Destination Gettysburg Information Center or mailed by request. Please call 800-337-5015 or email info@destinationgettysburg.com.

Children of Gettysburg 1863® the interactive adventure for young historians. Journey back to 1863 with your family or students in Gettysburg’s most family-friendly children’s history museum.

The historic Rupp HouseTM is home to Children of Gettysburg 1863®, providing young visitors with a hands-on history experience in Gettysburg through the stories of the children, teens and young adults who lived here during and after the Battle of Gettysburg.

Designed for families and groups with children in grades K-5, the interactive adventure takes you on a journey through galleries such as Growing Up in Gettysburg, The Soldiers are Coming, Surviving the Battle and Remembering Gettysburg. The interactive exhibits and experiences provide a history-based setting for creativity, discovery and learning.

Living history and special events take place on select dates throughout the spring, summer and autumn seasons.

Admission tickets are currently issued for children/youth ages 12 and younger when accompanied by a ticketed adult. Tickets are available online at GettysburgFoundation.org, by calling 877-874-2478 or 717-334-2436, at the ticket counter inside the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitor Center and on-site at Children of Gettysburg 1863®.

To purchase tickets for Children of Gettysburg 1863® and tours, events and programs offered by the Gettysburg Foundation, call 877-874-2478 or visit GettysburgFoundation.org.

Gettysburg who witnessed the horror of war, highlighting historic buildings and their importance.

The research is about rediscovering first hand accounts describing civilian life and the musings of soldiers who tactically and tragically occupied the streets of Gettysburg those three long days July 1863.

Reluctant Witnesses offers a variety of historic civilian and or military tours. The tours cover the events that happened in the town of Gettysburg, leading up to, during and after the great Battle. Our guides will connect the present locations to the past accounts. We bring July 1863 in the small town of Gettysburg to life.

Walking tours are presented in coordination with the Victorian Carriage Company and Horse Tours of Gettysburg.

Starting Location and Stops

The starting locations are noted in the individual tours. This is a leisurely paced walk… No hiking… on paved roads…wheelchairs are manageable.

Beyond the Battle Museum tells the remarkable story of Gettysburg civilians and their extraordinary experiences before, during, and after the Civil War. Through twelve interactive exhibit galleries packed with rare artifacts, the museum, recently named USA Today’s “Best New Museum,” explores the story of Gettysburg like you’ve never seen or heard it before.

Don’t miss Caught in the Crossfire, the museum’s premier exhibit. Crossfire is an immersive experience that uses cutting-edge technology to place visitors inside a meticulously reconstructed farmhouse during the Battle of Gettysburg. Written by New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara, the script vividly brings to life what it was like for one Gettysburg family to be overrun by invading forces and trapped behind enemy lines during this harrowing event.

As President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address encompassed the emotions of the American struggle, The National Civil War Museum portrays this struggle as a timeline, from the issues straining the nation through the war’s conclusion at Appomattox Court House. Nowhere can you find a better understanding of the Civil War, its effect on the nation and on the people. Come walk our halls. See and feel the emotions rise and fall as you embrace Bull Run, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Antietam and Gettysburg; once ordinary places transformed in a few hours to hallowed ground.