The exhibit will be housed in the former Woolworth Building,
located at 555 Main Street in Bethlehem.
Hours of operation:
Friday 4-8PM
Saturday 10AM - 8PM
Sunday 10AM - 8PM
New Walnut Street Parking Garage is now open!
There is no admittance fee
We will accept donations
There are bathrooms
There is a foyer as visitors enter from Main St.
There is a table and chairs in the foyer with Round Table information
There are reference books for Union soldiers to look up a CW ancestor
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We will have a large amount of artifacts from private collections depicting soldier life.
A center piece will be the Jonathan Taylor sword. Taylor was the captain of Co C. 129th PA who was mortally wounded at Fredericksburg. He was the only Bethlehem officer who died from battle injuries.
See chart below for list of speakers.
Civil War Round Table of Eastern Pa. will host a pop-up (temporary) exhibit in downtown Bethlehem on the weekends that lie between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Temporary use of the space is being donated by the building’s owner,
Lou Pektor and Rubel Street II LP by Pektor Holdings I GP DE LLC.
A partnership of the Civil War Round Table of Eastern Pennsylvania, Inc., Historic Bethlehem Museum & Sites, Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum & Library, Bethlehem Area School District, National Museum of Industrial History is responsible for this event.
Our thanks to CWRT Jack Stanley, who first suggested a Civil War pop-up museum as a way to increase awareness of, and membership in, our CWRT by leveraging idle space in downtown Bethlehem—an area that is heavily visited each weekend between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
The mini-museum will be open each week, Friday to Sunday, beginning on Friday, November 28 and running through Sunday, December 28.
Several guest speakers have already agreed to share Civil War and Revolutionary War subjects during museum exhibit hours. Those dates and times (and speaker names/topics) are listed below.
Donations to cover incidental costs associated with the popup museum exhibit will also be greatly appreciated. You can mail a donation to CWRT of Eastern Pa., Inc., PO Box 333, Allentown, Pa. 18105, OR bring a donation (cash or check) along with you to our November 4, 2025, or December 2, 2025, Round Table meetings.
