Of the museum at the corner of third and Chestnut Street in old city philadelphia. Philadelphia was the headquarters of the revolution. This is where delegates came. This is where the protest against british oppression first mounted. This is where the declaration of independence was written. So this really is the most central element of the American Revolution, the birth of our nation, which is why this museum is located here. Just down the street from me is the first bank of the states. Alexander hamiltons branch bank when he launched our nations banking system. It is also the first building constructed by the United States of america. So we, truly, are where the nation began, and it is the right place to tell the entire story of the American Revolution. It is our mission in this museum. Behind me, you see cannons from the era. These are part of the city of philadelphias collection. Every one of these canons is old enough that it could have been used to fight the revolution. Behind me
Philadelphia was the headquarters. Against protests british oppression first mounted. It was written just 200 yards away. This really is the most essential element, the birth of our nation. It ishe street from me, the first bank of the u. S. , Alexander Hamiltons banking system. It is the first building constructed by the usa, so we are truly where the nation began. It is the right place to tell the story. Cannons. See they are part of the city of philadelphias collection. Each one is old enough that it could have been used to fight the revolution. On the wall behind me, you see, concepts. Stone, core ofpiring, lofty ideals freedom, liberty, selfgovernment. 1776, but the revolution continues to this very day. Over here, we have wonderful exterior features of the museum that really help extend our story and is the outside of the building to inform people about the revolution. The first one is a giant sculptural relief, John Trumbull painting the declaration of independence. What you are
Troops. There is only few fragments of that statue that have survived. Its a great story. American up next on artifacts in the second of a twopart visit to philadelphias museum of the American Revolution, Vice President of Stephenson Scott leads us on a tour of the exhibit galleries covering the 17761778. We asked visitors in the gallery four big questions. The first of those questions is ow did people become revolutionaries. When they come back to the iii, they king george should be able to that question f how they become revolutionaries. The second question how did the revolution survive its darkest hour. While all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and accusations and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition headed ean history is towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eye witness epiction which weve blown up as a mural showing five british 6,000 britishabout and hessian troops in landing to land on manhattan base on sept
Im scott stevenson, im the president and ceo of the museum of the American Revolution. And very much. applause how many of you are visiting the museum for the first time this evening . All right. I love that the proportion of hands is getting lower and lower as we move on and on. As you know we opened just a little over two years ago at first and Chestnut Street and hit philadelphia just two blocks from independence hall. The mission of the museum is to uncover and share compelling stories about the Diverse People and complex events that started americas ongoing experiment in liberty, quality equality and self government. For those of you who have been to the museum and been to our 16,000 square feet of core exhibition that shares all these incredible stories of the making of the United States of america and also starts to explore the ongoing legacies of that revolution. Both here in america and around the world, we have seen George Washingtons remarkable war tenth home away from home.
You know, bookstores are placer people come to browse and shop, its a Community Gathering center. We put on normal times lots of author talks, we hold classes, we have a coffee house. Much of those activities had to stop since the spread of the virus. And with because of the warnings for social distance. The same time we been old karen some activity, largely through web orders. Also, at least until today, curbside deliveries. But even those curbside deliveries have been curtailed by the government. You have shut down your stores here in d. C. . The physical source . Guest yes it has come in phases. Last week we close the doors of all three locations to customer foot traffic. And we were still doing online processing online orders and shipping them as well as taking phone orders and doing curbside deliveries. But now we have had to, have an order that was issued by the d. C. Mayor last night see steven the curbside deliveries. So what about the author events . How many would you hold ty