Books, archives, and other two-dimensional material will continue to be owned by the Civil War Museum and are available to researchers at the Heritage Center of the Union League of Philadelphia.

On August 7, 2007, the museum announced that it would relocate from 1805 Pine Street near Rittenhouse Square to the former First Bank of the United States building near Independence Hall.

[4][5] In 2009, Governor Ed Rendell canceled the state's portion of the funding needed to relocate the museum, prompting the National Park Service to withdraw its offer to use the First Bank building.

The collection also included a large number of military escutcheons, which were made in the United States from the end of the Civil War until about 1907.

The museum had items pertaining to Abraham Lincoln, including a cast of his hands, a lock of hair, and a death mask.