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The Museum of the American Revolution, formerly The American Revolution Center, is a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania dedicated to telling the story of the American Revolution. The museum was opened to the public on April 19, 2017, the 242nd anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord , some of the battles of the American ...
Dr. Philip C. Mead, an American historian specializing in the period of the American Revolution, is Chief Historian and Curator [1] of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. Mead served as a project historian for exhibition development beginning in 2011, and joined the museum staff as historian and curator in 2014. [2]
Civil War Museum of Philadelphia: Philadelphia: Civil War: Temporarily closed 2008, seeking new location; collection stored at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center, National Museum of American Jewish History and the African American Museum in Philadelphia [3] Cliveden: Germantown: Historic house
Independence Mall State Park was created in the 1950s with the intention that the land would eventually be turned over to the NPS. Funded by 40-year state bonds, its construction was a joint venture between Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia and was overseen by Edmund Bacon, director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. Many ...
The Powel House is a historic house museum located at 244 South 3rd Street, between Willings Alley and Spruce Street, in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built in 1765 in the Georgian style , [ 1 ] and embellished by second owner Samuel Powel (1738–1793), it has been called "the finest Georgian row house in the city."
A 1911 photograph of Washington's office and sleeping tent, now on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. General George Washington used a pair of campaign tents throughout much of the American Revolutionary War. In warm weather, he used one for dining with his officers and aides, and the other as his military office ...
In June 2023, Stephenson came under scrutiny for the Museum of the American Revolution's decision to hold space for a Moms for Liberty event. Thirty-nine of the museum's 112 staff members signed a petition opposing the event, which led to an internal museum-wide meeting where he ultimately declined to cancel it.
The meeting hall served as a hospital for both British and American troops in the American Revolutionary War, and other Philadelphia institutions have held meetings in Carpenters' Hall, including Ben Franklin's Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, and the First and Second Banks of the United States.