A New Civil War Experience

Revealing the Heart and Soul of America

The American Civil War Museum is partnering with the experiential storytellers at BRC Imagination Arts to create a signature theatrical experience for the revitalized museum.

BRC is most known for creating the experiences and presentations at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Illinois. That innovative, influential museum employs immersive storytelling to illuminate Lincoln as America’s greatest “uncommon common man.” Visitors see what Lincoln saw and feel what he felt as he reached deep within himself as the nation was going through its most harrowing moment.

BRC now brings its signature brand of storytelling to the American Civil War Museum. Blending 100% scholarship and 100% showmanship, the presentation will plunge audiences into the heart of the conflict from multiple perspectives: Union and Confederate, North and South, African-American enslaved and free. It will explore the questions: “Why did they fight? What made them throw themselves into this tragic calamity? What were they thinking, hoping, fearing, wishing for?” It is a story of people ennobled by the virtues of determination, compassion and courage; and bedeviled by the vices of prejudice, barbarity and cravenness.

The new Museum is a place to tell unforgettable human stories of real people forced to engage in a life-and-death struggle to define the very nature of the American people and its government. This experience will serve as an emotional introduction that invites guests to journey deeper into those stories in the main exhibits and presentations throughout the rest of the Museum.