Museum of the Gunboat Cairo

Vicksburg Military Park, Vicksburg, MS

The story of the most famous of the “City-Class” Ironsides that took control of The Mississippi River, largely determining the outcome of the Civil War.

Project Architects: National Park Service

Exhibition Design: Barry Howard & Associates

Key Creative Staff:

Barry Howard
Lynn Paris, John Moy, Frank DeSanto

Client: US Dep’t of the Interior, National Park Service

Museum of the Gunboat Cairo Museum Composite
Museum Entrance
Split Wall Graphic
Orientation Sculpture
Interior Overview
Model of Reconstruction
Full size Reconstruction