The museum is beautifully done, with may many exhibits of finds from the Winchester area, which played a significant role in the Civil War, important to both north and south. The most interesting is the grafitti on the walls written by soldiers when the building was used as a jail during the war. It is not particularly interactive, so not super-interesting for younger children. From about 9 or 10 up, it is definitely worth a visit. And, of course, if you are a Civil War addict, it's a must.

Incredible historic building filled with ammunition, uniform elements and the graffiti from actual prisoners and their brief biographies were deeply intriguing. If you are nice to the staff, they will even invite you to ring the courthouse Bell!

Very nice building the lady their was nice gives her little story then you go and look around courtroom, Then up stairs is all the history about war displays and stories etc.very interesting

My family and I went to the museum this past weekend. (Labor Day) We had been looking forward to it since our children started college in Winchester Virginia. The Court house is beautiful from the out side. When you enter the Court House, it is very pretty in side as well. There is a small gift shop with lots of books but not much of anything else. We were instructed to go into the main part of the court house where a young gentleman came in and spoke about the layout of the court house. It lasted about 3 minutes and while he seemed to know a lot of information, he didn't ask if there were any questions and after stated go up stairs and look as much as you like, he was gone. Up stairs is where there is suppose to be over 3000 different artifacts of the war. While there may have been, they were all the same items. Case of guns (mostly the same). Cannon Balls (mostly the same). Case after case of buttons off of uniforms. After the forth case I was tired of looking at them. It took us less that 30 minutes to see the complete museum and it cost 18.00 to get in. While this might not seem like much money, it is compaired to the time that was spent there. There really needs to be a bigger area of artifacts and there needs to be a little more information (posters, recording, reinactments, etc.) of what really happened during the war. It was ok for a first visit but I wouldn't go again.