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“experience the siege of yorktown”
Through comprehensive, immersive indoor exhibits and outdoor living history, the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown offers a truly national perspective, conveying a sense of the transformational nature and epic scale of the Revolution and the richness and complexity of the country’s Revolutionary heritage. In the 170-seat museum theater, “Liberty Fever” draws visitors into the world of Revolutionary America, setting the stage for indoor gallery and outdoor living-history experiences. The introductory film is narrated by an early 19th-century storyteller who has traveled the country gathering stories about the American Revolution and shares his accounts using a moving panorama presentation of the time period. The 22,000-square-foot permanent exhibition galleries engage visitors in the tumult, drama and promise of the Revolution through period artifacts and immersive environments, dioramas, interactive exhibits and short films, including an experiential theater that transports visitors to the Siege of Yorktown with wind, smoke and the thunder of cannon fire. The encampment, which represents a portion of an America regiment and includes tents for soldiers and officers as well as a surgeon’s and quartermaster’s quarters, includes a drill field and an artillery demonstration area with tiered seating that from the outside looks like a redoubt. Situated just beyond the encampment, the farm evokes the world of the 18th century with a farm house, kitchen and tobacco barn and a new building representing quarters for enslaved people, along with crop fields, corncrib, kitchen garden and orchard.
I love a good museum, especially about history. It was fun to walk through and see some history. We came in a day that it was raining so we stayed inside to see what they had. But there was an... Read more
A very good museum with interesting exhibits and relevant information. This review is about the 1781 Cafe (no separate Yelp page), where I ordered a hot chocolate and a strawberry icing cupcake.... Read more
I was honestly very surprised at how good this museum was. Living in Northern Virginia/DC, you get a bit snooty since you're surrounded by famous museums. But Yorktown was better than many in my... Read more
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