I visited the Casemate Museum at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Fort Monroe is a decommissioned military base located in Hampton, Virginia at Old Point Comfort. The Casemate Museum is located in the inner fort. The curator's goals for the exhibit are to chronicle the military history of Fort Monroe, from the development of Fort Algernourne, the first defensive barricade in 1609, to the command of the Army's training doctrine. The museum details how Fort Monroe played an important role during the American Civil War. Upon entering the museum, there were exhibits depicting life in the early 1800s in the fort. The museum is a self-guided tour. If you are a tall person, it can be a little difficult to navigate the exhibits. For someone short like me (1.70 m), it wasn't as difficult. I was able to cross just fine without having to bend down as much. The exhibits have been set up in each room with tablets and wall displays describing what is being seen. They had arranged the rooms so that one could enter, but only up to a certain point, so that one could not touch anything. For example, there was a room in the pillbox where Jefferson Davis was briefly detained after being wrongly accused of plotting the subpoena of Abraham Lincoln. In the room was a desk and a bed. The area where the bed and desk are is surrounded by rope to keep visitors from disturbing the area I assume. The rest of the exhibitions were organized in the same way. You can enter the exhibition; you can't get close enough to touch it. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essay There are two presentation areas where visitors can watch a video about the exhibition. I decided not to participate. I thought the display areas would be better suited to a group. Moving further into the museum, exhibits featured lifelike statues of different people throughout history. There were also podiums to describe the people depicted in the statues. Along the way there were other artifacts such as nuclear warheads and different military uniforms depicting what was worn in the explained era. More wall coverings adorned the path leading to other exhibits with lifelike statues of people. The rooms seemed a little claustrophobic, so for someone who might find it difficult, like me, they might struggle to stay there for more than a few minutes. However, this is unavoidable because the building itself is part of history and therefore cannot be changed. One of the exhibits that stood out to me the most was an exhibit on the first English settler. It presented the weapons and arts of war then in vogue in Europe. Upon entering the museum, there is a representation of two settlers outside the stockade of Fort Algernourne. There is a podium that tells what this scene was like. According to the description, this happened around 1611. It explains the clothing worn by the militiamen and the weapons they could carry. It also gives a description of what the fort looked like as described by a Spanish officer. He described it as a “weak structure made up of ten-hands-high boards.” This also explains that a "hand" is an ancient style of measurement which, for the Spanish, was equivalent to the span of the outstretched fingers of an open hand, or approximately nine to ten inches. The description also included a disclaimer that the design of the fort is unknown, but the model on display is what it looks like.