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Explore Native American History and Culture During Indigenous Peoples Weekend at the Museum, October 12-14

September 3, 2024 Read Press Release

Author and Historian Lindsay M. Chervinsky Joins the Museum on October 16 to Reflect on John Adams’ Presidency

August 21, 2024 Read Press Release

Free Admission for Kids During Labor Day Weekend, August 31-September 2

August 1, 2024 Read Press Release

Drawing Capturing the Destruction of the Bastille in 1789, Gifted to George Washington by the Marquis de Lafayette, Set for Display at the Museum

July 25, 2024 Read Press Release

Eight Local Students Join the Museum of the American Revolution for Annual Living History Youth Summer Institute

July 17, 2024 Read Press Release

Museum of the American Revolution Announces First Chief Strategy and Growth Officer Allegra Burnette

July 9, 2024 Read Press Release

Museum of the American Revolution’s “Revolution at the Library” Program Returns This Summer with Expanded Regional Locations, Dates

June 14, 2024 Read Press Release

Celebrate the Fourth of July at the Museum of the American Revolution with a Week-Long Lineup of Festive Family Fun

June 6, 2024 Read Press Release

Diplomat and Bestselling Author Richard Haass to Join the Museum as Buchholz Lecturer on September 19

June 6, 2024 Read Press Release

Celebrate the Freedom Stories of Black Revolutionaries This Juneteenth at the Museum

May 23, 2024 Read Press Release

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Museum of the American Revolution, Funded by the National Park Service Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail

The Deborah and London Tableau figure at the Finding Freedom interactive in the galleries.

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A high up view of the War at Sea gallery in the Museum of the American Revolution featuring a sloop

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PBS NewsHour: Philadelphia’s ‘Liberty’ exhibit spotlights role of people of color in American Revolution

October 2021

John Yang reports on the Museum's work to tell a more inclusive story of the American Revolution by introducing visitors to the diverse people critical to building the nation for PBS NewsHour.

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CBS Sunday Morning: Inside the Museum of the American Revolution

June 2019

Martha Teichner reports on the Museum, which features a look at how the war changed life for African Americans and Native Americans, for CBS Sunday Morning.

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New York Times: A New Museum of the American Revolution, Warts and All

April 2017

Read more about the Museum's April 2017 opening and the "rock-star object in the collection," George Washington's headquarters tent, from the New York Times.

Washington Post: Museum of the American Revolution set to open in Philadelphia

April 2017

Learn more about the Museum of the American Revolution's opening in April 2017 from the Washington Post.

The New York Review of Books: Camping with Honest George

March 2018

T.H. Breen writes how the Museum gives visitors a sense of the personal sacrifice and frustrated aspirations of those who saw the Revolution as an opportunity to achieve personal liberty.