When your student group visits Gettysburg, you should stop by and explore the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center. The visitor center has an information desk, a resource room, and a museum bookstore. There are also entertaining activities for your students to enjoy. The museum contains fascinating exhibits that focus on the Battle of Gettysburg. The Resource Room has computers where visitors can research information on topics such as the people who lived in Gettysburg, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Gettysburg Battlefield monuments. The museum is known as the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War. The exhibits are interactive and contain displays of artifacts from the National Military Park Service. There are 11 galleries for you to explore. The students can watch a film called A New Birth of Freedom which is narrated by Morgan Freeman as part of the experience. You can also see the Cyclorama which is the nation’s largest painting. It places students in the fury of Picket’s Charge which happened on the third day of the battle. The painting displays a three-dimensional diorama foreground that depicts realistic stone walls, broken fences, shattered trees and the cannon. There are five galleries in the museum that show short video presentations on topics such as the causes of the Civil War, the three days of the battle and the results of war. The students can listen to readings from battle participants in two theater galleries. Students can also view a special exhibit gallery in the museum which contains 94 artifacts from a range of outstanding Civil War collections in the United States.