Our family-oriented interpretive exhibit provides an immersive experience that places children and families in Colonial America in the 1770s. We created a place for visitors to relive the conditions and issues that led to an event of global significance: the American Revolution. 

Four distinct spaces within the Center meld together to form the core of an 18th-century urban environment. Visitors can experience the civic and private spaces where people discussed, argued, and ultimately committed to taking control of their own fate as a nation. They can move through the individual spaces at their own pace and in their own sequence — building toward an understanding of what someone at that time and place may have experienced.

The exhibit opened in 2017.

Winner of the 2020 S.K. Stevens Award presented by PA Museums

Winner of the 2018 Institutional Achievement Award presented by PA Museums