Gettysburg Cyclorama Gets Make-Over-- Part 1

From the July 17, 2008, Chicago Tribune "Gigantic 1884 Gettysburg Cyclorama gets makeover" by Lisanne Renner, NY Times News Service.

The Gettysburg Cyclorame was scheduled to open September 26, 2008, after a 5-year restoration and for the first time in more than a century, you will be able to see it exactly as the artist originally intended.

Various props, even a full-size Union cannon, will be placed in the foreground of the painting to give the illusion of 3-D (should make the kiddies happy).

According to a 19th-century poster for the Cyclorama presents "the sublime spectacle of glorious Gettysburg in all the awful splendor of real war." But for decades, it hasn't been the same.

Conservators are putting final brushestrokes in the $15 milion restoration that will be featured in the new museum of the Gettysburg National Military Park.

The restored painting is now larger than before at 377 feet in circumference and 42-feet tall.

It Was Impressive Before...But Now...Wow!! --Old Secesh