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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.

Located in the Museum of the American Revolution, Cross Keys Café welcomes both guests and locals to enjoy snacks and meals made with locally sourced produce, made-to-order barista menu, and seasonal outdoor seating.

Discover unique gifts, books, and artifact reproductions in our shop at the Museum. The Museum Shop is open during Museum operating hours, and you can shop the Museum Shop online anytime.

The Museum Shop is temporarily closed both onsite and online.

Begin your visit in the Lenfest Myer Theater, located on the first floor, 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 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.

The Oneida Indian Nation Atrium on the second floor of the Museum 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.”

Guests will not want to miss this moving immersive film that follows General George Washington's remarkable journey from commander in chief to first president and sit in the presence of his original Revolutionary War headquarters tent. The Washington's War Tent film is presented in Alan B. Miller Theater.

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

Don't miss the powerful words from the Declaration of Independence emblazoned in limestone on one of the plaza's flanking walls.  

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.”