The Charlotte Museum of History opened American Revolution: The Augmented Exhibition on 14 April 2026, marking the East Coast debut of Histovery's travelling augmented reality show. Running through April 2027 at the museum's 3500 Shamrock Drive site, the exhibition occupies a 5,000-square-foot ground floor that has been transformed into more than 20 interactive portals covering the period 1763 to 1789.
Visitors are issued a HistoPad, a handheld tablet developed by Paris-based Histovery, which they use to scan display scenes and trigger 360-degree 3D reconstructions of key Revolutionary War moments. Portal content includes the Boston Tea Party, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Battle of Yorktown, Henry Knox's cannon haul from Fort Ticonderoga in December 1775, and regional episodes such as the Battle of Kings Mountain, the Battle of Williamson's Plantation and the 1780 Battle of Charlotte. All experience data is stored locally on the tablets, so the deployment does not require internet or Wi-Fi connectivity, and content is available in English, Spanish, French and German.
The exhibition was developed by Histovery in partnership with the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, and is part of the nationwide commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It premiered a month earlier at the Historic New Orleans Collection and will continue to tour US cities through 2031 with the stated goal of reaching all 50 states. The Charlotte Museum of History holds exclusive Southeast regional rights within a four-hour radius for one year.
A dedicated Carolinas gallery was produced with input from the museum's historian and exhibits manager Nolan Dahm, working with the Catawba Indian Nation on a 1763 encampment reconstruction. A costume from the film The Patriot, on loan from Historic Brattonsville in York County, is also featured. The museum raised more than $1 million in public and private funding to bring the exhibition to Charlotte, with backing from the John William Pope Foundation, Mecklenburg County, Foundation for the Carolinas and the City of Charlotte.
