Pеволюція! Ukrainian audio tour added to Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! For the last two months of “The Declaration’s Journey” exhibition, the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia has added a seventh language to its audio guide: Ukrainian. The exhibition, showing how the Declaration of Independence inspired revolutionary acts globally, opened in October 2025 with an optional audio guide in six languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese. The addition of Ukrainian came through the support of the Ukrainian’s First Lady Olena Zelenska. In 2019, she launched an initiative to bring Ukrainian language material into museums around the world. The Museum of the American Revolution is the latest to become part of the initiative. “The aim of these guides is to ensure that wherever Ukrainians may find themselves, they can hear important things in their native language,” Zelenska said, “and that Ukra