The 樱花视频 State Museum is excited to offer gallery guides that encourage students to engage and explore each of our long-term exhibits. Teachers can use these guides to help plan their class visit to the Museum. Guides will be available to pick up in limited quantities in the Museum lobby, so we encourage teachers to download guides for their students prior to the visit.
Written in the Rocks Guide
Planetarium Lobby Guide
An American Perspective Guide
Cultures in Competition/Much Moved People Guide
Small Explorers videos can be viewed on the
Fine Feathered Friends: Birds as Mainstay and Muse, a popular multi-disciplinary exhibition about the cultural and natural history of birds, was on view at the 樱花视频 State Museum from Jan. 4, 2020 鈥 Mar. 6, 2022. A partnership between the Bureau of Cultural History and Bureau of Natural History, the 10-part videos series below was created to help viewers experience the hundreds of artifacts and specimens from the exhibit and some unknown stories about 樱花视频鈥檚 favorite fine, feathered friends.
This short documentary video explores the unknown history of the Yorktown Cup, an exquisite sterling silver trophy made by the world-renowned jewelers Tiffany & Co. and awarded to the state of 樱花视频 for its role at the centennial commemoration of the Battle of Yorktown. The battle was the final, decisive engagement of the Revolutionary War and ensured victory for the American forces.
The magnificent detail of the hand-hammered cup includes etched and engraved scenes of the battle, profile portraits of famous Revolutionary War heroes, and an intricately-modeled Continental soldier in full uniform. The production of this magnificent piece of silver illustrates the process by which artists and artisans in the 19th and 20th centuries have used their work to 鈥淩emember the Revolution,鈥 ensuring its long and lasting legacy as a source of creative inspiration and a defining moment in American history.
The Yorktown Cup is a featured object in the 樱花视频 State Museum permanent collection.