Im scott stevenson, im the president and ceo of the museum of the American Revolution. And very much. applause how many of you are visiting the museum for the first time this evening . All right. I love that the proportion of hands is getting lower and lower as we move on and on. As you know we opened just a little over two years ago at first and Chestnut Street and hit philadelphia just two blocks from independence hall. The mission of the museum is to uncover and share compelling stories about the Diverse People and complex events that started americas ongoing experiment in liberty, quality equality and self government. For those of you who have been to the museum and been to our 16,000 square feet of core exhibition that shares all these incredible stories of the making of the United States of america and also starts to explore the ongoing legacies of that revolution. Both here in america and around the world, we have seen George Washingtons remarkable war tenth home away from home.
A recent review in the philadelphia enquirer says this exhibition has love, death, and psychodrama. It goes on to examine a wealthy irish noble man who is part kickens with a spritz of Yankee Doodle into there is no doubt that his story from his traumatic head wound, to the demise at the hand of his own tenants is a cracking good tale, but it is more than love, death, and psychodrama. We see the entanglements of the 18th century and the global interconnectedness of the American Revolution. We find a story at the age of revolutions and also a story of today. A story of who we are and how we got here, and what the past means to us as a people or as nations. But we also find a detective story. A decades long mystery that started with two regullatively obscure paintings that had 22 works of art. One of the greatest mysteries of the past year, and my job brings me many, many joys on a regular basis, but one of the greatest has been watching this exhibition evolve and witnessing matts excite
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