In-Gallery Experience

The Museum offers themed guides to enhance your visit. Start with our Museum Guide & Map, the Guide for Kids and Families, the Touch Guide, and the Sensory Guide and look out for the following Gallery Guides during your visit:

• Celebrating Revolutionary Women
• Drumming Up Attention: Fifers and Drummers in the Continental Army
• Finding Freedom: African Americans and the Revolution
• The Marketplace of Revolution
• Occupied or Liberated? American Cities Under British Rule
• The People Between: Native Americans in a Revolutionary Era
• Remembering Fallen Revolutionaries
• Supplying the Army
• Touch the Revolution: Sensory Experiences in the Museum

Be sure to call ahead before you visit if you are interested in seeing a particular object, because exciting changes happen all the time!

When you’re planning your visit, consider booking a special guide tour, talk, or workshop! The Museum offers Highlights Tours for groups and on weekends, Walking Tours of the neighborhood, audio tours, special tours for families, Touch Tours for guests with visual disabilities, and adult add-on talks and workshops about special topics for visiting groups.

Throughout the Museum at special, themed Discovery Carts, view replica objects and documents with a Museum educator to dig deeper into stories and peoples of the Revolution.

Explore digital Discovery Carts on Harry Washington, camp followers, and tools used by artisans and makers of the era. 

Living history at the Museum brings the people and events of the Revolution to life through costumed programs, craft demonstrations, and a travelling set of replica tents called the “First Oval Office Project.” Living history programs invite guests to understand the Revolution through the material culture of the period. You can see replica objects, watch demonstrations of 18th-century crafts, and imagine what is was like to wear the clothing and do the work of Revolutionaries, to understand diverse historical perspectives.

The Museum’s educators use many different interpretive techniques and exceptional material accuracy to create immersive environments and experiences both within and beyond the Museum. The everyday people of the Revolution become more human and their experiences more relatable to people today. Living history programs at the Museum inspire guests and others to make new connections and view themselves as part of the ongoing story of the American Revolution.