Museum Map

Explore our amenities and core exhibition spaces to plan your next route through the Museum.

A map of the first and second floors of 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.

   

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First Floor

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.

A variety of foods, including sandwiches and salads
First Floor

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.

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The Museum shop
First Floor

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.

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First Floor

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.

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First Floor

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.

Two Asian American female children utilize the objects within Revolution Place. They are both seated at a wooden table. The child on the left is writing with a quill pen and smiling, while the child on the right is pretended to pour cream into her silver teacup. On the table to her left is a silver tea pot.
First Floor

Revolution Place

The Museum’s family-friendly discovery center, Revolution Place, brings to life the Museum’s lively, diverse Old City neighborhood during the 1700s and invites visitors to learn through hands-on exploration.
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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.

   

The second floor of the Museum, featuring guests walking around and various historical paintings on the walls.
Second Floor

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.”

General George Washington's Revolutionary War headquarters tent on display at the Museum
Second Floor

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.

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Second Floor

The Road to Independence

How did people become Revolutionaries? Discover how the American colonists – most of them content and even proud British subjects – became Revolutionaries as the roots of rebellion took hold.
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Second Floor

The Darkest Hour

How did the Revolution survive its darkest hour? Explore how America would soon learn that it was one thing to declare independence, and quite another to secure it.
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Second Floor

A Revolutionary War

How Revolutionary was the war? Explore the final years of the Revolutionary War from the perspectives of the diverse people who lived through it.
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Guests with masks enjoy the images of Revolutionary War veterans.
Second Floor

A New Nation

What kind of nation did the Revolution create? The Revolutionaries succeeded in gaining independence, but then came the immense task of creating a nation founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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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.

   

A portion of the Declaration of Independence inscribed on the side of the Museum building
Declaration of Independence Plaza

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.  

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Declaration of Independence Plaza

Revolutionary-Era Cannon

This dramatic display of five cannon from the Revolutionary era are on loan from the Girard Estate in Philadelphia.  

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Declaration of Independence Plaza

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.”

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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). 

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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.

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