<P> In November 2013, the Museum of the Confederacy was merged with the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar . Its current name was announced in January 2014 . </P> <P> The Museum of the Confederacy was founded in 1890, 25 years after Lee's surrender in Appomattox . It is located in the historic home that served as the White House of the Confederacy, two blocks north of the Virginia State Capitol, which the Ladies Hollywood Memorial Association saved from destruction . It opened as the Confederate Museum and White House of the Confederacy in 1896, on February 22, the date of Jefferson Davis's inauguration . The historic home was named a National Historic Landmark in 1963 and Virginia Historic Landmark in 1966 . A new building next door was built in 1976 to house the expanding collection (and a 12 - year restoration of the historic home began). The Museum maintains a collection of flags, weapons, documents, and personal effects related to the Confederacy, and offers tours of the home restored to its 1861--65 appearance . In 2006, museum officials announced that neither the museum nor the home would be moved . </P> <P> The museum houses more than 15,000 documents and artifacts along with 500 original, wartime, battle flags from the failed Confederate States of America . Among the thousands of other important pieces found there are items owned by Jefferson Davis, Robert Edward Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, John Bell Hood, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Simon Bolivar Buckner, J.E.B. Stuart, Joseph Wheeler, Wade Hampton, Lewis Armistead, and Raphael Semmes . The provisional Confederate Constitution and the Great Seal of the Confederacy are also housed there . </P> <P> A newer building to better preserve and exhibit the museum's collections was built and opened in 1976 immediately adjacent to the White House, on its remaining 3 / 4 acre (3,000 m2) property . The anchor of the first ironclad warship, CSS Virginia, which fought the USS Monitor in the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, is prominently displayed in front of the Museum . </P>

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