YORKTOWN, Va., May 10,
2013 – With a newly created logo on display, a cornerstone was dedicated today
for the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, which will replace the Yorktown
Victory Center, a museum of the American Revolution operated by the state’s
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.
University of Virginia
Professor A. E. Dick Howard, Virginia Secretary of Education Laura W. Fornash,
and Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation and York County leaders spoke before the
unveiling of the 12- by 24-inch marble cornerstone for an 80,000-square-foot museum
building that soon will begin to take shape.
“When we tell the story
of the American Revolution, as it will be told in the new museum,” Professor
Howard said in his address, “we’re also telling the story that resonates
everywhere that people yearn for accountable government, the rule of the law,
and the freedom of the human spirit.”
“School systems and
museums have been long-standing partners in student education,” Secretary
Fornash said. “As new education models are tried and tested, and as
reforms in our educational systems are implemented more broadly, the new
American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will certainly be an example for what
works in education.”
A logo for the new
museum incorporating the name with patriotic imagery of a soaring eagle and
stars, in red and blue on a white background, was adopted May 9 by the
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Board of Trustees and Jamestown-Yorktown
Foundation, Inc., Board of Directors along with a new logo for Jamestown
Settlement, a museum of 17th-century Virginia. The new Yorktown museum
logo will be used in early awareness initiatives. Full implementation of
both logos – designed by BCF, a Virginia Beach brand communications firm
specializing in the travel industry – will begin in 2016, the year the transition
from Yorktown Victory Center to American Revolution at Yorktown will be
complete.
The American Revolution
Museum at Yorktown will chronicle the Revolution from the beginnings of
colonial unrest to the early national period and consider its meaning and
impact. The project encompasses reorganization of the 22-acre site; a new
building to house expanded exhibition galleries, classrooms and support
functions; and expansion and relocation of the existing re-created Continental
Army encampment and Revolution-period farm. Total cost of planning and
major components is estimated at $50 million. Building and exhibit
construction and renovations to the site are funded by the Commonwealth of
Virginia. Private donations will support elements of gallery and outdoor
exhibits and educational resources.
While exhibits and
parking availability will be impacted at various stages of construction, which
started in 2012, the Yorktown Victory Center will continue in daily operation
while the transition to American Revolution Museum at Yorktown is under way.
For more information,
visit www.historyisfun.org.
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