Patsy Cline Museum for Downtown Winchester, VA
Since 1999, Carter Burton has been collaborating with Celebrating Patsy Cline (CPC), a nonprofit corporation committed to its mission: “To Preserve and Perpetuate the Legacy of Patsy Cline and Her Music”, to create a museum in downtown Winchester in honor of the artist. The goals are: a large facility on the interstate, an urban museum in downtown Winchester, a traveling exhibit, and virtual site on the Internet.
In 2007, Carter Burton collaborated with internationally renowned exhibit designers Ralph Applebaum Associates to imagine what a museum would look like in downtown Winchester, VA. Celebrating Patsy Cline has purchased many of Patsy Cline’s belongings to protect them for use in a dedicated museum. They have been loaned to the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley for a temporary exhibit and to raise awareness for the cause.
Carter + Burton worked with Kee Construction when Celebrating Patsy purchased and developed Patsy Cline’s childhood home as an accessible and code compliant “House Museum”, placed in on the Historic Registry with the State of Virginia. Over 4000 people visit the house each year.