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Join the Museum for an hour-long, family-friendly event exploring how the Continental Army prepared for long summer campaigns with try-on clothes, drills, and more.

Author and historian Colin G. Calloway will discuss his new book The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation (2018), which was recently announced as a finalist for the 2018 National Book Awards, at the Museum of the American Revolution on Thursday, November 29, 2018, at 6 p.m. The event is part of the Museum’s popular Read the Revolution Speaker Series.

Visit the Museum of the American Revolution over Winter Break, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024 – Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, to celebrate the start of a new year and to say goodbye to the Museum’s current special exhibit, Witness to Revolution: The Unlikely Travels of Washington’s Tent, closing Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. Plus, learn what the holidays were like on the Revolutionary-era home front with special crafts, activities, pop-up talks and more that explore colonial life during the winter months.

Read an excerpt from Holly Mayer's new book, Congress's Own: A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union.

The Museum of the American Revolution is pleased to partner with Sotheby's New York to present Liberty or Death: Relics from the American Revolution.

Join the Museum at Clark Park in West Philadelphia where students from the Living History Youth Summer Institute along with costumed living historians will set up our First Oval Office Project.

Collections Society members are invited to a special evening at the Museum to meet textile conservator Virginia J. Whelan for a private tour and discussion with Museum Curator of Exhibitions Matthew Skic.

Join the Museum at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania where students from the Living History Youth Summer Institute will set up our First Oval Office Project.

Read an excerpt from David McCullough's book that captures American reactions in the immediate aftermath of the Declaration of Independence.

Join the American Friends of Lafayette at museums and historical sites throughout Philadelphia from Sept. 27-29 for events and programs commemorating the Bicentennial of the Marquis de Lafayette’s 1824-25 farewell tour visiting Philadelphia.