Museum of the American Revolution

The Museum of the American Revolution, formerly The American Revolution Center, is a museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that tells the story of the American Revolution. The museum opened to the public on April 19, 2017, which marked the 242nd anniversary the first battles in the war at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.

The museum has a collection of over 2,000 objects, including artwork, sculpture, manuscripts, and rare books. Theaters, large-scale tableaux, and permanent exhibition galleries show the people and events of the American Revolution and engage the public in its history and ongoing relevance.

The museum was awarded the PA Museums' Institutional Award in 2018 for Washington's War Tent.

The Museum of the American Revolution was awarded the Stanford White Award by the Institute of Classical Architecture in the category of commercial and civic architecture.

The museum won Engineering News-Record's 2017 Best Projects Award of Merit in Cultural/Worship.

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) awarded the museum an Excellence in Exhibition Award for Special Achievement in 2018 for engaging audiences in something they don't know in new ways.

The museum's 2017 digital interactives by Bluecadet won a Communication Arts 2017 Annual Award.

The British Guild of Travel Writers awarded the museum an Award of Merit in 2017.

The Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Award was presented to the museum in 2017 under the category Preservation Planning for Washington's War Tent.

The museum was nominated in 2017 for the Leading Cultural Destinations Award 2017, "The Museum Oscars" - Best New Cultural Destination of the year, North America.

Pennsylvania Evening Post (1776), first newspaper to print the Declaration of Independence.

The American Alliance of Museums awarded the MUSE Award (Silver Level) to the museum in 2012 for its mobile applications category. This award recognized the museum's American Revolution Interactive Timeline iPad App.

The Museum of the American Revolution houses a number of thousand objects. The museum's collection includes items that General George Washington used during the War of Independence. It also contains important artifacts, manuscripts, and rare books. Rev. The collection's core is made up of W. Herbert Burk, who started it in the early 1900s.

Some of these items were displayed at George Washington's Mount Vernon and Valley Forge National Historical Park, as well as the National Constitution Center, Winterthur Museum, Senator John Heinz History Center, and the North Carolina Museum of History.

Dr. R. Scott Stephenson, the Museum's President, is a former Vice President of Collections and Exhibitions and Programming. He holds an M.A. The University of Virginia awarded him a Ph.D. in American History. Stephenson is a specialist on colonial and revolutionary American history, material culture, and visual storytelling. Philip C. Mead is Chief Historian and Director for Curatorial Affairs. He holds an M.A. Harvard University.

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