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This image shows a crowd of about a dozen people in a semicircle around a costumed living historian interpreting the baggage and equipment that's part of the replica First Oval Office Project.

First Oval Office Project at Haddonfield Middle School

November 1-2, 2024
Join the Museum on Nov. 1-2 at Haddonfield Middle School in Haddonfield, N.J., where we will set up our First Oval Office Project, a recreated Revolutionary War encampment.
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This image shows historian Lindsay Chervinsky to the right with a purple jacket and shoulder length brown hair with the cover of her book Making the Presidency featuring a portrait of John Adams to the left.

Read the Revolution Speaker Series with Lindsay M. Chervinsky

October 16, 2024, from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky will join the Museum to present the first event in the Museum’s 2024-2025 Read the Revolution Speaker Series with a discussion on her latest book, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic.
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Member Virtual Lunch & Learn: The Triphena Bowl in a Revolutionary City

September 25, 2024, from 12-1 p.m.
Museum Members across the nation are invited to meet Museum experts and educators for a special talk and interactive Q&A in this exclusive new online series of virtual lunch and learns presented live from Philadelphia.
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Member Morning: Behind the Scenes of Occupied Philadelphia

November 3, 2024, at 9:30 a.m.
Museum Members are invited to join Meg Bowersox, Manager of Gallery Interpretation, for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at our flagship living history event, Occupied Philadelphia.
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A painted silk parade banner featuring a portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette displayed in the Witness to Revolution exhibit.

American Friends of Lafayette's Bicentennial of Lafayette’s Farewell Tour Visits Philadelphia

September 27-29, 2024
Join the American Friends of Lafayette at museums and historical sites throughout Philadelphia from Sept. 27-29, 2024, for events and programs commemorating the Bicentennial of the Marquis de Lafayette’s 1824-25 farewell tour visiting Philadelphia.
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This image shows turnips with their off white color and purplish exterior carved into faces in an 18th century style.

Halloween 2024 at the Museum

October 31, 2024
This Halloween, Oct. 31, join us at the Museum and online for Revolutionary family-friendly frights and fun, including turnip-carving demonstrations, Revolutionary stencils for your jack-o-lantern, and more.
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This image shows three young visitors sitting around a table playing a role playing game led by a Museum educator in the center in the Museum's lower level education center.

History Explorer Day Camp: Revolution, The Game

October 25, 2024, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Join the Museum for History Explorer Day Camp, a full-day, drop-off/pick-up camp that allows your student the chance to spend their day off from school in a fun, exciting, and educational environment, using the Museum, our collection, and our beautiful Old City neighborhood.
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When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary Story

October 2, 2020 - April 25, 2021
When Women Lost the Vote explored the little-known history of the nation’s first women voters and examined the political conflicts that led to their voting rights being stripped away.
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Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier

September 28, 2019 - March 17, 2020
Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier followed the untold story of Irish soldier and artist Richard St. George, whose personal trauma and untimely death provide a window into the entangled histories of the American Revolution of 1776 and the Irish Revolution of 1798.
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A zoomed in section of Verplanck's Point featuring General Washington’s tent perched on a hill overlooking the encampment

Among His Troops: Washington's War Tent in a Newly Discovered Watercolor

January 13 - February 19, 2018
Learn more about the Museum's 2018 special exhibit, Among His Troops, highlighted by the only known wartime depiction of George Washington's headquarters tent.
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