Museum in Gettysburg closing

The Associated Press has an article about the end of a Gettysburg landmark:

A Gettysburg, Pennsylvania museum featuring a model Confederate encampment (photo, bottom) and many Civil War artifacts is closing after more than half a century.
Officials say the Soldiers National Museum (photo, top) will close its doors at the end of the day on 2 November 2014 and an auction of museum materials will be held on 21 and 22 November 2014, days after the 151st anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.
"The museum has been around for a very long time, but the visitors at Gettysburg are looking for something a little bit different today," said Matt Felty, president of Gettysburg Tours Inc., which owns the museum and several other attractions in the area.
The museum, established in 1959, reportedly attracted as many as four hundred thousand visitors a day in the 1960s, but Felty said the annual visitation now averages only about fifteen thousand. Even during last year's Sesquicentennial battle anniversary, the number of visitors was only "about steady", he said. "This museum concept has lived its useful life," he said. "Visitors want a more hands-on, tech-heavy experience. We don't really have that here."
Making the museum competitive with nearby attractions, such as the six-year-old Gettysburg National Military Park Museum Visitor Center, the year-old Seminary Ridge Museum at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Heritage Center, would require an investment "well into six figures", he said.
The museum contains Civil War artifacts, a collection of rare toy soldiers from various eras and associated artifacts, a life-size nighttime Confederate encampment scene with lighting accompanied by an audio track, Civil War-related mannequins, and several handmade dioramas.
Felty declined to estimate how much the collection is worth. "I think anything Gettysburg- or Civil War-related will generate a lot of interest," he said.

Rico says he hopes the stuff ends up in good hands; we shouldn't lose history, because as George Satayana said: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.