National Prisoner of War Museum

Thought provoking - but this is for adults, not kids or even bored teens

Museum is more than Anersonville, it's all POWs. Text heavy, but nevertheless worth time to read, think, out yourself into someone else's shoes. Many personal stories of heroism, grit, banal brutali...

Thought provoking - but this is for adults, not kids or even bored teens

Museum is more than Anersonville, it's all POWs. Text heavy, but nevertheless worth time to read, think, out yourself into someone else's shoes. Many personal stories of heroism, grit, banal brutali...

A Moving Landmark

I went because I knew of Andersonville’s place in the Civil War. I wanted to get a feel for it as a POW camp. It’s so much more. Yes the stories of the Civil War soldiers are there and very moving. B...

A Moving Landmark

I went because I knew of Andersonville’s place in the Civil War. I wanted to get a feel for it as a POW camp. It’s so much more. Yes the stories of the Civil War soldiers are there and very moving. B...

Somber

The museum is very somber, as it's meant to be. The way the prisoners were buried shoulder to shoulder is a telling reminder of how terrible their existence was.