Poles address Gettysberg decay

The Gettysberg Cyclorama Picture at the Gettysberg National Museum on the site of the historic battlefield in Pennsylvania, has long been deteriorating and in need of professional conservation. Now, workers from the Wrocław Conservatory Panorama in Poland have been selected to fly to Gettysberg and restore the painting.

The Gettysberg National Musuem Foundation describes the Cyclorama, which was painted by French artist Paul Philippoteaux and a team of 20 in 1883-1884, as "a colossal circular oil painting depicting the heroic but doomed charge of Confederate infantry led by General George Pickett."