Come face to face with history at The Museum of the Confederacy, the leading center for the study of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. A private non-profit educational and preservation organization, the Museum is home to the world’s largest collection of artifacts, manuscripts and images associated with the domestic, military and political life during the period of the Confederacy. Exhibits feature the personal effects of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and other Confederate figures of the Civil War.