Summer 2017

Summer 130 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com P hiladelphia is recognized as a city replete with cultural institutions—the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia History Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts among them. This year, a new museum joins the fold, expanding the city’s long tradition as an arts and culture mecca. On April 19, 2017, the Museum of the American Revolution (Fig. 1) opened its doors to the public in the heart of historic Philadelphia, steps away from Independence Hall. That day marks the two hundred and forty-second anniversary of what Ralph Waldo Emerson called the “shot heard round the world”: the beginning of the Revolutionary War at the battles of Lexington and Concord. The Museum of the American Revolution commemorates that and other significant events and brings the founding of the United States of America to life. American Revolution By Matthew Skic Philadelphia’s Newest Gem The Museum of the