500 firearms (Most on display)(70 on display in museum)
Created in 1930
Williamsburg, Virginia
- 1930s
- firearm history from matchlock technology to the early years of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s state arms manufacturing
- “Lock, Stock, and Barrel” exhibit
– DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum - 1960 designated a National Historic Landmark District
- 2018 “Lock, Stock And Barrel” exhibit Closed
- March 11,2019 “To Arm Against An Enemy: Weapons Of The Revolutionary War,” opens
– The exhibition will remain on view until January 2, 2023
– features 70 muskets, carbines and rifles,bayonets, pistols and swords as used by Loyalists, American patriots, Hessians and British “red coats”
To Arm Against An Enemy: Weapons of the Revolutionary War
“Over the last ninety years, Colonial Williamsburg has assembled one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of Revolutionary-era weaponry. That gives us the rare opportunity to explore this subject in an unbiased fashion, from every partisan perspective: American, French, British and Hessian.”
~RONALD L. HURST
Gunsmith Shop – Colonial Williamsburg
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