About Us

• Located in Kenosha Wisconsin, the Civil War Museum is like no other museum in the country. The 15,000 square foot permanent exhibit gallery showcases significant Civil War artifacts important to the regional and national Civil War story. Through state-of-the-art audio and video technology, life-size dioramas, a 360° Movie Experience, and interactive engaging exhibits, visitors travel back in time and experience the history that influenced the social, political and economic outcomes of the Civil War. The newest addition, and featured centerpiece of The Fiery Trial, is the 360° Movie Experience, “Seeing The Elephant”. Seeing The Elephant, is a high-tech, 360 degree, digital movie, that takes the audience through what is best described as an experience. The technology required to achieve this unique event is offered only by a handful of venues throughout the nation. Seeing the Elephant is a powerful, multi-sensory film with a ‘moving cyclorama’ referring in part to huge in-the-round paintings that caused a popular sensation more than one hundred years ago. The film offers an authentic, and historically accurate, glimpse of a soldier’s first encounter with combat; what the soldiers referred to as Seeing The Elephant. (a phrase used in the Civil War to describe the experience of combat) See the Movie’s Trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhWMNqe7hz8 The museum shares a beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline campus with the Kenosha Public Museum, offering visitors free parking and a quick trolley ride to their sister museum, The Dinosaur Discovery Museum. The Kenosha Public Museum is a natural sciences and fine and decorative arts museum that affords site seeing on the bank of the Great Lake Michigan, and the museum has many fall and winter events for families and students looking for a great day trip.