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GETTYSBURG NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD MUSEUM FOUNDATION Project Budget Comparison - 1998 to 2004 The following is a comparison of the cost estimates associated with the partnership between the National Park Service and Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation. The cost estimates are for the entire partnership project, which includes design and construction of a new museum and visitor center facility which will incorporate new collections storage, museum and visitor center space with interpretive exhibits and venues as described in the park's General Management Plan; restoration of the Cyclorama Painting," demolition of existing visitor facilities and their associated roads and parking, restoration of the historic landscape of the current visitor center areas, and relocation of NPS personnel, equipment, furnishings and collections into the new facility. The 1998 estimates are taken from the GNMP General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement, which cautions that: This GMP is programmatic: that is, it gives guidance in the form of management prescriptions for future decision making regarding resource protection, interpretation, public use and development, but it does not elaborate on the details of the definitive actions. Therefore, the costs provided in this appendix are indicative of the capital and operational costs of implementing the alternatives. They are provided so that reviewers can compare the general costs and benefits of the GMP alternatives. Specific costs for construction and operation would be determined for individual actions after detailed designs are produced. (p. 336, italics added) As promised, the conceptual phase of design has now been completed. The 2004 estimates below are taken from the completed conceptual design for the project.
Design services includes architectural, engineering, and exhibit design fees, as well as required consultant services for traffic studies, wetland mitigation, archeological surveys, etc. Fees have increased due to inflationary factors between 1998 and 2001 when the design team was hired, the quality of the design team engaged, the addition of painting conservators consulting fees for the restoration of the Cyclorama Painting, and the Foundation's agreement to absorb site design costs for both Foundation and NPS-owned lands effected by the project.
Museum/VC cost estimates have increased due to inflationary factors between 1998 and 2004; additional exhibit space for transition gallery, temporary exhibits and interactive resource centers; additional visitor circulation space within the museum/VC as advised by the design team (see Breakdown of Square Footage of New Facility); and the proposed use of native stone and timber materials for exterior construction (instead of brick).
Exhibit costs have increased due to the Foundation's agreement to add the missing historic diorama and skyspace back into the Cyclorama Painting; increased cost estimates for restoration of the Cyclorama Painting, expanded exhibit gallery space as above; and the Foundation's agreement to add "open storage" space to the complex in order to allow visitors to see more of the park's artifact collection.
Offsitee Improvements include utility and road installation and connection into the Foundation property. Costs have increased due to the Foundation's agreement to provide an entry/exit road across NPS land, additional improved overflow parking on NPS land, additional picnic facilities and walking trails, and to restore much of the adjacent NPS land to its historic appearance.
Building Fit Out includes general interior design work and furnishing costs for the theater, food service and museum/bookstore. The 1998 estimate presumed that building fit-out would be a responsibility of the operators of these venues. Since this would result in passing the cost of fit-out on to future park visitors, the Foundation has determined that it would rather add these costs to the fund-raising budget, in order to keep visitor fees as low as possible.
As above, the 1998 estimate presumed that the operator of the theater would absorb the costs of film production, and pass the cost on to visitors. As above, the Foundation has determined that it would rather add these costs to the fund-raising budget, in order to keep visitor fees as low as possible.
Costs to remove the current visitor facilities have increased due to better estimates of the costs of removing of hazardous materials imbedded in the building construction, and the suspected existence of a former town dump underneath a portion of a parking lot.
The 1998 budget did not include an endowment. The Foundation has proposed, and the NPS has agreed, to provide an endowment to be used to assist with ongoing annual building maintenance and preservation of the park's collection of Civil War artifacts.
Includes fundraising and external relations efforts, foundation staff salaries, and office and administrative costs. The 1998 estimate did not include these costs, but was based upon the "net" required fundraising (i.e., the net fundraising required for the project, after the costs of fundraising had been reimbursed.) The Foundation has proposed, and the NPS agreed, that the cost of fund-raising should be shown as part of the overall project budget.
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