Renovations are doing what the Confederacy couldn’t: temporarily shutting down Fort Ward (4301 W Braddock Road).
While the park itself will remain open, the central Fort Ward Museum is closed for the next month. A release from the City of Alexandria said the museum is scheduled to reopen on July 6.
Plans have been in the works for years to update some of the exhibits inside the museum to include more information not only on the fort’s Civil War history but on the sizable Black community that called the fort home after the war.
The museum also went through some renovations back in 2021 that briefly shut the museum down.