For the last 100 years the Frances Tavern Museum has acted as a reminder to the Revolutionary War. Today, I visited the museum in New York City’s financial district and for the next month it is showing one of only four hand-written documents of the Magna Carta. Overall, I really enjoyed how the paintings, artifacts and documents showed me history as opposed to me reading it in some boring textbook.
At the museum, I met up with 29-year-old Jennifer Patton, the Director of Education there. She told me how the Museum was purchased in 1904 by the “ Sons of the Revolution” which are actually sons of fathers who fought in the Revolutionary War, who purchased documents, weapons and paintings that depicted colonial America.
“ We want this place to be the starting point of conversation,” said Patton. “ There is a lot more to it than George Washington.”
During my hour at the museum, Patton showed me the fascinating Magna Carta exhibit, paintings of the war by John Ward, a room containing pistols and muskets from the war, and the Long Room where George Washington actually said farewell to his officers of the continental army. Can you imagine, the actual room?
If you are as patriotic as me, or even if you want to impress a date, check out Frances Tavern and relive your countries history. Plus, there is a quaint Frances Tavern restaurant next door that looks like a scene out of the 1700s.
Kind of a bug out.
Information:
Website: http://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/
Phone: 212-968-1776
Price: $10.00
Hours: 12p.m-5p.m., closed on Sunday.
address: 59 Pearl St.
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