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The Museum of the American Revolution located in historic Philadelphia tells the story of the American Revolution and its legacy. #HowRevolutionary

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The Pride of Philadelphia 🤝 The Philadelphia Associators 🥊

Philadelphia in 1776 was a city on the verge of crisis, but colonists were rising up to the challenge of their rival: the British Army. News of crushing defeats in New York — some of the first battles fought after the vote to declare American independence — littered the headlines.

At Revolutionary Philadelphia: 1776 on Oct. 17-18, meet the diverse residents of the city and their differing roles and views on supporting independence. Visit artisans demonstrating their crafts, soldiers laying in wait as they wish bad luck to the British, and imagine what the Revolutionary War meant to those who had a ringside seat.

Plan your visit at the link in our bio 🥊

#Rocky50 by @amrevmuseum

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We’re ready for spooky season! 🍂🎃 Join us this October for these upcoming events and more for all ages.

📆 Oct. 3: Member Morning
Museum Members are invited to this 60-minute lecture and discussion for an exclusive inside look at our flagship living history event, Revolutionary Philadelphia: 1776.

📆 Oct. 10-12: Indigenous Peoples Weekend
Join us at the Museum to explore Native American history, culture, and their role in the American Revolution, as part of our annual Indigenous Peoples Weekend celebration.

📆 Oct. 17-18: Revolutionary Philadelphia: 1776
Visit the Museum Oct. 17-18 to experience a living history event that will immerse you in the fall of 1776. On Sunday, Oct. 18, between 1-2 p.m., Museum Members are invited to stop by the Museum’s third-floor Liberty Hall for a spot of tea during Revolutionary Philadelphia: 1776.

📆 Oct. 20: Read the Revolution Speaker Series with Adam Jortner
Dr. Adam Jortner will join the Museum to present the first public program in the Museum’s 2026-2027 Read the Revolution Speaker Series with a lecture and discussion on American religious freedom as defined and forged by Jewish faith leaders and communities during the Revolutionary era.

📆 Oct. 31: Halloween at the Museum
This Halloween, Oct. 31, join us at the Museum and online for Revolutionary family-friendly frights and fun, including turnip-carving demonstrations, Revolutionary stencils for your jack-o-lantern, and more.

Plan your October visit at AmRevMuseum.org 🎟️ by @amrevmuseum

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ICYMI: They’re just two underdogs gearing up for the thrill of a fight. 🥊

Join us at Revolutionary Philadelphia: 1776 on Oct. 17-18 to meet the diverse residents of the city and their differing roles and views on supporting independence. Visit artisans demonstrating their crafts, soldiers laying in wait as they wish bad luck to the British, and imagine what the Revolutionary War meant to those who had a ringside seat. More details at the link in our bio 🔗

#Rocky50 #RockySeason by @amrevmuseum

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Thank you, or “wanishi,” to our friends from the Delaware Tribe of Indians who led education programming and Lenape social dances for free today on our plaza as part of Indigenous Peoples Weekend programming at the Museum.

Join the dance through Monday. 🤝 Celebrate and explore additional facets of Native American history and culture with us throughout the weekend, including their role in our nation’s founding.

#HowRevolutionary by @amrevmuseum

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On display at the Museum, see Continental Army soldier Jeremiah Keeler’s sword, which was given to him by the Marquis de Lafayette and carried at the Siege of Yorktown in October 1781.

Keeler, who was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1760 and initially served in the Connecticut militia as a teenager, is said to have used the sword as a crutch on his long walk home at the end of the Revolutionary War. At the Siege of Yorktown, Keeler and his comrades in the Corps of Light Infantry famously assaulted a British redoubt, which led the Continental Army and its French allies to victory. Alexander Hamilton commanded that brave attack. See the sword, which was donated to the Museum by Keeler’s great-great-great-great granddaughter and her family, alongside a photograph of Keeler holding the sword.

#HowRevolutionary by @amrevmuseum

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🚶 Step through the city on the brink of change with our new guided walking tour for Revolutionary Philadelphia: 1776!

Make the most of your visit to Revolutionary Philadelphia Oct. 17-18 with a 60-minute guided experience that will immerse you in 1776, the year of independence. Join a Museum educator to explore the year’s triumphs and trials through the context provided in our galleries. Then head outside to sites like @carpentershall to interact with living history interpreters, and experience what 1776 was like for the diverse people of the Revolutionary capital.

🎟 Book the tour and explore Revolutionary Philadelphia: 1776 at the link in our bio by @amrevmuseum

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Celebrate Native American history and culture, as well as their role in our nation’s founding, at the Museum on Oct. 10-12 as part of our annual Indigenous Peoples Weekend celebration!

🎶 Enjoy free performances of traditional Lenape dance by the Delaware Tribe of Indians on the Museum’s outdoor plaza (daily, select times)

🌽 Meet living history interpreters Kehala (Mohawk, Bear Clan) and Jordan (Mohawk, Bear Clan) Smith, who will share stories about their culture, costuming, and traditions

🖍 Visit the Museum’s family-friendly discovery center, Revolution Place, to color a wampum belt with your own symbols and messages

📜 Explore “The Declaration’s Journey” special exhibition for artifacts that highlight the Native American nations that were the first foreign powers to formally acknowledge the independence of the United States

And much more! Plan your visit at AmRevMuseum.org 🎟️ by @amrevmuseum

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American religious freedom was defined and forged in part by Jewish faith leaders and communities during the Revolutionary era. In his most recent book, “A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom,” historian Adam Jortner traces how Jewish presence helped shape American independence and the decision to extend citizenship to all religions in the new nation. Jortner describes Philadelphia’s synagogue, Mikveh Israel, as a growing center that supported the Revolutionary cause.

As a founder of Congregation Mikveh Israel and a business owner on Market Street, Jonas Phillips served in the Pennsylvania militia and advocated for equal rights for the Jewish community. On July 28, 1776, Phillips folded up one of his neighbor John Dunlap’s broadsides and enclosed it in a letter to Gumpel Samson, his relative and business associate in Amsterdam. He explained that he was sharing “a declaration of that whole country,” the newly created United States of America. Unfortunately, a British ship captured his letter containing the news of independence. As part of “The Declaration’s Journey,” presented by @GriffinCatalyst, the original contents of Phillips’ confiscated parcel — his letter, the Dunlap printing, and a bill of exchange intended for his mother — are all on loan from The National Archives of the United Kingdom (@nationalarchivesuk), returning to Philadelphia for the first time since 1776.

📆 Read an excerpt with our latest #ReadtheRevolution feature (link in bio 🔗), and join us on Tuesday, Oct. 20, as Jortner presents a lecture and discussion for the first program of the 2026-2027 Read the Revolution Speaker Series. Onsite and online tickets available! by @amrevmuseum

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“D[ea]r Rebecah…” ✍️

The Battle of Germantown was fought #onthisday in 1777 between General George Washington’s Continental Army and Sir William Howe’s British Army.

In this letter in our collection, William Duncan, a Baltimore cooper-turned-soldier, wrote to his “D[ea]r Rebecah” on Oct. 7, 1777, three days after fighting in the “very hot” Battle of Germantown near British-occupied Philadelphia. Duncan recalled that he and his fellow Maryland militiamen began fighting early in the morning, with the battle lasting well into the afternoon. He mentioned men who were killed and wounded but pointed out that he and others “are all in good health.” Ending his letter, he begged Rebecah to “remember me to…all friends” and that he “remains as before your loving husband to death.”

#HowRevolutionary by @amrevmuseum

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Get in loser, we’re declaring our independence. 💖📜

#MeanGirlsDay #October3rd by @amrevmuseum

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🧵 #OnThisDay in 1869, Mohandas Gandhi, a preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement who is widely known by the honorific title “Mahatma,” was born in India.

On display in our special exhibition is a “charkha,” or a portable spinning wheel, that Gandhi gifted to his friend Taraben Jasani in 1928 as India sought to achieve its independence from the British Empire. Spinning wheels like this one became symbols of Indian resistance to British rule because they could be used by ordinary Indians to produce homespun cotton cloth called “khadi.” Creating homemade cloth allowed the Indian people to have less reliance on British manufacturing. India did not secure its independence until 1947.

In a letter he wrote to Jasani in 1928, Gandhi told her that “there must be at least one spinning-wheel” in every household. See the charkha, on loan from Taraben’s daughter Ila Jasani Good, on your next visit to “The Declaration’s Journey” at the Museum.

#HowRevolutionary taken in Museum of the American Revolution by @amrevmuseum

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It’s installation day!

In the final part of this series, join Museum Exhibit Specialist & Preparator Xander Karkruff in our core galleries to view how she installed the button mold on the custom-made mount she crafted. Make sure to stop by to see the button mold, on loan to us from Independence National Historical Park (@independencenps), on your next visit!

Stay tuned for more behind-the-scenes features 👀 by @amrevmuseum

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