Museum Map
Explore our amenities and core exhibition spaces to plan your next route through the Museum.
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First Floor
The first floor of the Museum features the family-friendly discovery center, Revolution Place, as well as Patriots Gallery, Lenfest Myer Theater, Cross Keys Café, and the Museum shop.
Guest Services at the Front Desk
Purchase tickets or become a member at the Front Desk located on the first floor of the Museum's Rotunda.
The Museum is committed to making its facilities, exhibits, and programs accessible for all audiences. Wheelchairs for use within the Museum are available free of charge on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Front Desk.
Cross Keys Café
Nestled within the iconic Museum of the American Revolution, Cross Keys Café offers a bright and welcoming retreat in the heart of Old City Philadelphia. Open to the public and operated by Feast Your Eyes Catering, Cross Keys features a chef-curated locally sourced menu of hot and cold sandwiches, globally inspired salads, hometown bites, and family favorites.
Museum Shop
Discover unique gifts, books, and artifact reproductions in our shop at the Museum. The Museum Shop is open during Museum operating hours starting at 10 a.m., and you can shop the Museum Shop online anytime.
Lenfest Myer Theater
Begin your visit in the Lenfest Myer Theater, with our orientation film, "Revolution." This sweeping film explores the origins, experiences, and ongoing legacy of the American Revolution – setting the stage for your exploration of our core exhibition. This 15-minute film is shown throughout the day.
Patriots Gallery
Patriots Gallery features 5,000 square feet of flexible, multipurpose space to accommodate special exhibitions and large capacity events. When not in use showcasing short-term exhibits, the gallery is available for private event rental and can also be subdivided to host concurrent event programming.
Revolution Place
Second Floor
The second floor of the Museum houses our core exhibition galleries, as well as the moving and immersive film "Washington's War Tent," presented in the Alan B. Miller Theater.
Oneida Indian Nation Atrium
The Oneida Indian Nation Atrium features three impressive paintings depicting major events of the Revolutionary War - a hand-painted copy of French artist Louis Charles-Auguste Couder’s ”Siege of Yorktown” and two late-19th-century paintings by Harrington Fitzgerald, “The Foraging Party” and “Washington Crossing the Delaware.”
Alan B. Miller Theater
Follow the remarkable journey of General George Washington's headquarters tent from the Revolutionary War to the present in the Museum's signature "Washington's War Tent" film, highlighted by the reveal of the real tent.
The Road to Independence
The Darkest Hour
A Revolutionary War
A New Nation
Declaration of Independence Plaza
The Museum's plaza features words from the Declaration of Independence, a display of Revolutionary-era cannons, and two bronze sculptural reliefs.
Declaration of Independence
Don't miss the powerful words from the Declaration of Independence emblazoned in limestone on one of the plaza's flanking walls.
Revolutionary-Era Cannon
This dramatic display of five cannon from the Revolutionary era are on loan from the Girard Estate in Philadelphia.
Chestnut Street Bas Reliefs
Designed by artist Ellen Qiong Schicktanz, the Museum has two bronze sculptural reliefs installed along Chestnut Street featuring Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware” and John Trumbull’s “The Declaration of Independence.”
Accessibility
The Museum of the American Revolution is committed to making its facilities, exhibits, and programs accessible for all audiences in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
John M. Templeton Jr. Education Center
Located on the Museum’s lower level in the John M. Templeton Jr. Education Center are two large multipurpose classrooms for students and other groups to use for lunches, further learning, seminars, workshops, and more.