Visit the Museum
Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center is located on Seminary Ridge along Gettysburg National Military Park's auto tour route. Our museum offers:
A modern museum experience in a historically-preserved building
Interactive exhibits and artifact displays
A museum shop with special merchandise with which to remember your visit
Handicap accessibility (except the attic and Cupola)
Group discounts, with complimentary leader and driver admission
Flexible scheduling for groups, including morning and evening visits
Special group programs
Bus drop-off and pick-up area with free parking
Exhibit galleries invite visitors to contemplate the far-reaching legacies of the Civil War.
Historically, the famous Cupola served as a lookout, and continues to produce picturesque views today.
The Gettysburg Address is featured throughout the museum, inspiring visitors to consider Abraham Lincoln’s “unfinished work.”
As the site of a military hospital, Seminary Ridge provides a proper setting for understanding Civil War medicine.
Life-size dioramas depict wounded soldiers in rooms where collectively more than 600 patients received care.
Historic halls showcase names, faces, and words of the men and women who once walked these grounds.
Tickets
Ticket buttons automatically bring you to the next available date and time. For alternate dates, please choose "Other Dates" under "Selected Date."
A Museum Admission ticket gives visitors access to all three floors of the museum's award-winning permanent exhibit, “Voices of Duty and Devotion.” The museum also features a museum shop and a mile-long outdoor walking trail with wayside markers. All three floors of museum exhibits and the museum entrance are handicap accessible.
Buy 4 Museum Admission tickets for only $45+ tax. Choose the "Value Pack: Family" ticket option on the ticket sales screen. Please choose a quantity of ONE ticket. This ONE ticket will be valid for four Museum Admission tickets.
Cupola & Museum Admission
Don’t miss a chance to see where the battle was imagined! A Cupola Tour ticket includes:
Both Museum Admission and a guided tour of the building’s Cupola, which Union Gen. John Buford and his staff used to survey the terrain before and during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Guided discovery shows how the view from the Cupola shaped the pivotal first day's fighting and set the stage for the largest battle in North America.
IMPORTANT: Please note that the Cupola Tour is not handicap accessible and children must be at least 48 inches tall. Comfortable, sturdy shoes are recommended.
Group Visits
We specialize in group visits. If you are bringing 15+ people to Gettysburg, let us make your visit memorable.
Click Here for group information including pricing, programs, talks, and more!
Click Here for our group policy sheet.
To plan your visit or for more information, please contact Rob Williams, Director of Outreach, at 717-339-1354 or
e-mail him by using the form on our Contact Us page.
