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Gettysburg Cyclorama Restoration [7min @ 15:56]

In its heyday, more than a hundred years ago, the Gettysburg Cyclorama was said to have been so grippingly real that it could bring veterans of the American Civil War to tears. The massive painting covered the walls of a round room, four stories high and bigger than an olympic-sized swimming pool. But now the Cyclorama hangs in tatters at the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum. So it's about to undgergo a two year, ten-million-dollar facelift. Sunday will be the last day you can see the painting in its current condition. Bob Wilburn is the president of the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation. We reached him there.
Read entire article at CBC Radio One "As It Happens" Part 2