Twelve-year-old Scott Cover learned about the Civil War in his sixth-grade history class last year.
But he said having the opportunity to tour an interactive traveling Civil War museum at Penn Park in York City Sunday afternoon was way more interesting than sitting in a traditional classroom setting.
Cover and his mother spent about an hour Sunday exploring the Pennsylvania Civil War Road Show, a 53-foot trailer that housed Civil War replicas that people were able to touch and handle.
The museum was divided into several sections and each area focused on different aspects of the the war. including the homefront, children's lives during the war and the state's war commemoration activities in the years since the war, said Joan Mummert, president and chief executive officer of York County Historical Trust.
The traveling museum is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Civil War 150 group, a statewide partnership of history organizations, which is traveling to each of Pennsylvania's 67 counties over the next four years.
More than 1,600 people visited the free museum between Friday and Sunday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, said Mummert.
But he said having the opportunity to tour an interactive traveling Civil War museum at Penn Park in York City Sunday afternoon was way more interesting than sitting in a traditional classroom setting.
Cover and his mother spent about an hour Sunday exploring the Pennsylvania Civil War Road Show, a 53-foot trailer that housed Civil War replicas that people were able to touch and handle.
The museum was divided into several sections and each area focused on different aspects of the the war. including the homefront, children's lives during the war and the state's war commemoration activities in the years since the war, said Joan Mummert, president and chief executive officer of York County Historical Trust.
The traveling museum is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Civil War 150 group, a statewide partnership of history organizations, which is traveling to each of Pennsylvania's 67 counties over the next four years. More than 1,600 people visited the free museum between Friday and Sunday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, said Mummert.
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