The Henry Van der Weyde, a Civil War Prisoner's Sketchbook Exhibit offers an intimate look at the work of this remarkable 19th-century photographer, artist, and Civil War soldier. The exhibition will feature Van der Weyde’s original sketchbook, created while he was imprisoned in Danville as a Union soldier, which was donated to the museum in […]
Accompanying, the Henry van der Weyde Sketchbook Exhibit, Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History is partnering with the National Museum of Civil War Medicine to present the traveling exhibition The Toll of War, an exhibit on soldiers and citizens both black and white and how they dealt with the harsh realities of war during […]