Museum Exhibitions
Knowledge for All
Middle Colonies
Time travel back to 18th-Century Middle Colonies and discover how our ancestors survived off the land. Explore the cuisines of the Indigenous people, African enslaved, and the European settlers utilized their relationships with the land and each other to survive.
New England Colonies
Time travel back to 18th-Century New England Colonies and discover how our ancestors survived off the land. Explore the cuisines of the Indigenous people, African enslaved, and the European settlers utilized their relationships with the land and each other to survive.
Chesapeake Colonies
Time travel back to 18th-Century Chesapeake Colonies and discover how our ancestors survived off the land. Explore the cuisines of the Indigenous people, African enslaved, and the European settlers utilized their relationships with the land and each other to survive.
Historic Beverages
Time travel back to 18th-Century Southern Colonies and discover how our ancestors quenched their thirst. Explore the drinks of the Indigenous people, African enslaved, and the European settlers utilized their relationships with the land and each other to survive.
Southern Colonies
Time travel back to 18th-Century Southern Colonies and discover how our ancestors survived off the land. Explore the cuisines of the Indigenous people, African enslaved, and the European settlers utilized their relationships with the land and each other to survive.
Culture Gallery
Become a cultural anthropologist and explore the different lifestyles of the smaller ethnic groups of the 18th-century Colonial America through the lense of food.
International Trade
What foods are native to the United States? How did foods that are foreign to the United States become accessible to 18th-century colonists? Learn how international trade impacted food and what colonists ate.
Food Processing
How did our ancestors process food to make it edible? Learn how corn, grain, milk, and other foods were treated by our 18th-century ancestors to make it easier for the body to process.
Our Past is their Future
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