I've been a big fan of the History Underground YouTube channel for a few years now, and know that he has backing from the Gettysburg Museum of History.

About two years ago, I was in Gettysburg walking around town and literally stumbled upon the Gettysburg Museum of History and decided to tour the museum I had seen on YouTube.

Walking in, the girl behind the counter said "welcome in, the museum is free to tour, but everything you see is for sale".

Literally everything in there.

I'm a pretty big fan of history, especially military history and would like to own historic military artifacts, I haven't really dabbled in purchasing these kinds of items. But, I was caught off guard by "everything is for sale".

I guess my naive question is, how many items in that museum do you think are actually legit? They had everything in that museum from bullets fired in the battle of Gettysburg, to JFK's boxers, Dick Winter's uniform, and a section of blood stained fabric that they claim is from the sofa in the bunker where Hitler killed himself.

It all seems sketchy. I'd say the Hitler bunker is the sketchiest. The Russians took that part of Berlin, that makes chain of custody pretty thin

Interesting.
https://www.gettysburgmuseumofhistory.com/
Never been there. I've never understood the attraction to owning/buying nazi crap, but whatever. I'd question how verified/certified many of the items are.

The actual Gettysburg battlefield museum is awesome fwiw, was restored/renovated/enlarged tremendously something like 20 years ago. Been a while for me.

Relic hunting is no longer allowed at Gettysburg (and most NP battlefields). But it was permissible for a while, and a lot of the big battlefields got mined for all kinds of minnie balls, buttons, ammo boxes, etc. back in the day, and a lot of these places selling this stuff acquired it that way.

I was last at Gettyburg in 2018. Museum is awesome, ranger tours worth your time. Do the film during the hot part of the day and see the Cyclorama.

And appreciate the Texas monument because it's the only Confederate on that isn't an overproduced bronze sculpture.