Overview
Wednesday 1 April – Sunday 12 September
Wednesday 1 April - Sunday 12 September
Open Tuesday-Sunday, 12noon-4pm Closed Mondays
Weston Gallery
Free admission
The United States of America was founded upon an idea of freedom. As a place of refuge from religious persecution and the birthplace of a new political system, the American colonists who rebelled against British rule saw themselves as the founders of a new nation. Drawing on a wide range of manuscripts and printed collections, this exhibition commemorates the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. It explores the issues at stake in the Wars of Independence and considers some of the complex problems which faced the United States as it fought to win, and realise, its new-found freedom.