Fraunces Tavern® Museum

Once a tavern, this building played a pivotal role in the American War of Independence.

Visit Fraunces Tavern® Museum with Go City®

• With us, there are no entry fees on the day – all you've got to do is show your pass.
• Wander through the nine galleries of the Fraunces Tavern® Museum and explore the fascinating collection within.
• Objects on display include period furniture, paintings, letters and even a lock of George Washington’s hair!

Follow in the footsteps of legendary American revolutionaries, including George Washington himself.

Fraunces Tavern® Museum’s role in the history of the United States is the stuff of legend. General George Washington – later of course to become the first President of the United States – used the tavern as a headquarters as America fought to break free from British rule.

Now a museum (and restaurant), it contains several thousand objects from the Revolutionary War and Colonial America, with around 400 on display at any one time. These include everything from fine works of art to period tables, chairs, teacups and private letters.

You can visit the room where Washington delivered his famous farewell to officers as the Revolution came to an end and even view a lock of his hair.

Fraunces Tavern® Museum highlights

Presidential coach - see the only known remaining panel of the coach that carried George Washington to his Presidential inauguration in 1789

John Ward Dunsmore - explore the world’s largest collection of the celebrated artist’s paintings of scenes from the American Revolution

Presidential artifacts - the museum counts a lock of George Washington’s hair and even a fragment of his coffin among its exhibits

Getting in: show your pass at the front desk for scanning. 

For more information, visit the Fraunces Tavern® Museum website.

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