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Revolution
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Venue: Fraunces Tavern Museum
Cost: Adults: $10.00
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New York Collection
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Venue: Fraunces Tavern Museum
Cost: Adults: $10.00
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Children 6-18: $5.00
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The collection captures an important portion of New York City's past, which is as colorful and vibrant as its present. What began as New Amsterdam, a rather insignificant Dutch outpost, became New York in 1664. Under English rule the city took on greater importance as part of Britain's vast trade system and as a strategic military base for conflicts with France for control of North America. By 1771 the city's population stood at over 20,000. In 1785 the Continental Congress selected New York as its meeting site. During this time Fraunces Tavern served as offices for the Departments of War, Treasury, and Foreign Affairs. With the adoption of the Constitution, the city became the first Federal capital in 1789. The following year the capital moved temporarily to Philadelphia. By that time New York was well on its way to becoming, if not the political center of the nation, America's capital of commerce and culture.
In addition to numerous maps, prints, and newspapers, the Museum owns such rare pieces of New York's past as a panel from Washington's inaugural coach and a large, wooden water pipe.
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Daily Life Collection
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Venue: Fraunces Tavern Museum
Cost: Adults: $10.00
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Children 6-18: $5.00
Children under 6: Free
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Besides momentous events of the Revolutionary Era and New York City history, Fraunces Tavern's collection represents daily life of 18th-century Americans. Objects that were once common are now the most rare. Utilitarian items were often broken or used until they were worn out and then tossed away. Cooking pots, bottles, pipes, and other such items are now treasured at Fraunces Tavern Museum.
An important part of daily life in the 18th century was the local tavern. These meeting places served both local populations and travelers making them major communication hubs and places of business. When Samuel Fraunces opened his first tavern, The Mason's Arms on Broadway, in 1759, his was one of 218 licensed taverns in New York City. The Long Room where Washington bid his officer's farewell on December 4, 1783 has been recreated with period furnishings typical to a tavern, and the Museum collection includes images of New York taverns and an 18th-century tavern license signed by Mayor Richard Varick.
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Magna Carta and the Foundations of Freedom
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Venue: Fraunces Tavern Museum
Cost: Adults: $10.00
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See where the story of your freedom began. Magna Carta will make its appearance at historic Fraunces Tavern® Museum in New York City from September 15 - December 15, 2009.
In the almost 800 years since it was drawn up this remarkable copy of Magna Carta has journeyed from its home at Lincoln Cathedral in England to New York just twice. The first time was for the 1939 World's Fair. The second time was over 20 years ago. It doesn't make the trip very often.
The year is 1215 and the days of "the divine right of kings" are numbered. A group of English Barons call King John to the fields of Runnymede to set his seal to Magna Carta, a document which, for the first time, limited his powers and put the wheels of liberty in motion that continue to roll forward today.
Originally known as "The Charter of Liberty," deep within was the revolutionary clause forming the basis of ideas that would later find their way into the Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution and other documents of liberty: "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled - nor will we proceed with force against him - except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land."
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