Erik Dorr

Director and Founder, The Gettysburg Museum of History

Erik Dorr is the Director and Founder of the Gettysburg Museum of History. A lifelong collector with an eye for the extraordinary, Erik has spent decades assembling one of the most extensive privately owned historical collections in the United States. His museum houses artifacts spanning centuries — including the world’s largest collection related to Major Dick Winters and Easy Company, made famous by the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. Erik is also the co-author of two books exploring the real-life heroes behind that series. His expertise has taken him around the world, leading European battlefield tours and appearing on networks such as the History Channel, C-SPAN, Syfy, the Travel Channel, and the Smithsonian Channel.