Exhibition Opening – "These Truths: The Declarations of Independence"
Join us to get the first look at the APS Museum's latest exhibition — These Truths: The Declarations of Independence
These Truths: The Declarations of Independence explores how Americans used and reproduced the document during the first fifty years of its history. At first it served as a pronouncement of news, later a political tool, and then transformed into a national symbol.
The creation of the Declaration was a process, not an event, and its story is more complex than assumed. The many copies of the Declaration in the exhibition offer a reminder that the Declaration’s “truths” were never static and each era reevaluated their meaning.
These Truths draws on the APS’s extensive Library & Museum holdings. Highlights of the exhibition include a first printing of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, the chair Thomas Jefferson sat in while writing the Declaration of Independence, John Binns’ 1819 printing of the Declaration, and William James Stone’s 1823 printing of the Declaration.
Join us for welcome remarks at 6:00pm ET, and a reading of the Declaration at 6:30pm by a Historic Philadelphia Inc. History Maker. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not needed for this event, but museum capacity is limited and will be monitored throughout the event.
