- This is the American Revolution as you've never experienced it before.

This augmented reality experience is at the Charlotte Museum of History, right here in North Carolina, also known as the Queen City.

The exhibit is called American Revolution, the augmented exhibition.

Visitors use a tablet called a histopad to move through interactive portals covering the years 1763 to 1789.

- So to scan into a portal, we'll take that circle and we'll line it up.

And here we are in Versailles.

- You can experience the Boston Tea Party, the crossing of the Delaware, Winter in Valley Forge, more than 20 pivotal moments in the revolutionary era.

- When guests come to the Charlotte Museum of History, they're gonna see our new American Revolution augmented exhibit.

And what that is is three full galleries here on the first floor of the museum, full of interactive tech that will help you experience the American Revolution.

- For generations, centuries, museums have been things in boxes and panels on walls that you read.

What myself and my team have really been focused on is reengaging the public with history, making it exciting.

We're very excited for everyone to come and see this.

- This exhibit is special for a few reasons.

Number one is the technology itself.

This stuff is really cool video game technology that really immerses you in each of the scenes.

Every scene is interactive.

You're hearing people speak.

You can literally move throughout the scene.

That is just really new technology and we think it's really cool.

- When you walk in, you'll check in at the front desk and you'll be handed a tablet that is called a histopad.

You'll get a demonstration on how it works and then we send you off into the exhibit.

- If you're someone who is attracted by the cool objects or the striking pictures, you can set your journey around the visual things that stick out to you.

But if you're a panel reader and you wanna know every single detail, there are over five hours of reading content available for you.

And there's something for everybody in between.

There are treasure hunts.

For the kids, there are selfie stations where you can dress up like it's the 18th century.

There's all sorts of ways to interact with it.

- A lot of them have a time slider.

So you can go from 250 years ago and you can slide and you can see what's there now as if you were standing in that site today.

- But the national story isn't the whole story.

- It's a touring exhibit, but we are the first museum on the East Coast to open it.

And we're proud to say that we have a part of the exhibit that we curated for ourselves to talk about Charlotte and North Carolina's role in the greater war.

So that'll be a permanent installation that you can't see anywhere else.

- Kings Mountain.

The ride of Captain James Jack and the Battle of Charlotte.

It's an interactive experience of the war that happened right here.

When you're ready for a physical experience, just step outside.

- What's unique here at our site specifically is that you can pair that with the actual historic buildings.

You come to our site and you learn about how the revolution affected this area.

And then you go out to the home site and you see Charlotte's only revolutionary era building that we have left.

You walk through it.

- The 1774 Rock House has been standing on this land for more than 250 years, built by enslaved hands, owned by a framer of North Carolina's first constitution and Bill of Rights.

The exhibit runs through April, 2027.

Set aside two to three hours, tickets start at $17 and include a tour of the Rock House.

- It's going to be an experience that you wanna do again.

And it's an experience that you're not going to be able to replicate.

I recommend it to anybody that's a fan of history.

(upbeat music) - American Revolution: The Augmented Exhibition is on display at the Charlotte Museum of History through April 2027.

For tickets and more information, visit charlottemuseum.org.