The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown is a living history museum in Yorktown, York County, Virginia, founded in 1976 as the Yorktown Victory Center. Located along the Colonial Parkway and adjacent to the Yorktown Battlefield, the museum includes exhibitions relating the history of the American Revolutionary War, including the origins of the Thirteen Colonies and their unrest, the conflict itself, and the forging of a new nation in the decade after the Siege of Yorktown. In addition to the indoor exhibitions and movies, the museum includes living history areas such as a Continental Army encampment (with musket and cannon firing demonstrations) and a re-created Tidewater Virginia farm.
Gallery[]
Exhibits[]
The flags of the former Thirteen Colonies at the entrance
An exhibition of Highlander equipment
French and Indian War weaponry
A statue of Patrick Henry
A scene of a Black porter unloading a merchant ship
A colonial merchant's store
A colonial furnace
Patriots in action
The British Army in battle
A statue of Thomas Jefferson
A Hessian uniform
A British uniform
A French uniform
An American uniform
An exhibit on slave life
A scene from a middling house
Royal Navy equipment and a portrait of Richard Howe
A replica of a siege cannon from the Siege of Yorktown
A description of the Federalist-Anti-Federalist debate
A statue of George Washington
A description of America's new society
Artifacts from Westward Expansion
Continental Army encampment[]
The entrance to the camp
Another view of the camp
The alcohol tent
The kitchen
"Hard bread" and other food items
The quartermaster's tent
The physician's tent
The laundry area
A redoubt with abatis
A firing demonstration
Tidewater farm[]
The entrance to the farm
The corn, cabbage, and potato fields
The farmhouse's parlor
A farmer with the cat "Rochambeau"
Rochambeau
Herbs hanging from the kitchen ceiling
The kitchen counter
The kitchen's backyard
The cook talking to a chicken
Another view of the field
Tobacco hanging from a barn
Another view of the farm
The slave quarters
Inside the slave quarters
The tool shed