Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Museum of the American Revolution

Matthew Skic is the Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. He joined the Museum’s staff in 2016 after graduating from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. Since the Museum opened in 2017, Matthew has curated multiple award-winning exhibitions including Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier (2019-2020) and Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia (2023). He now oversees the team that develops the Museum’s dynamic exhibitions and cares for its growing collection. Matthew is the project director for The Declaration’s Journey, the Museum’s 2025-2027 exhibition on the 250-year global impact of the Declaration of Independence, and the lead curator for the Museum’s upcoming exhibition about Loyalists (opening in 2027).

In 2022, Matthew attended the Attingham Trust’s Summer School. He also serves on the board of the Swan Historical Foundation in New Jersey and is the founder and project director of Written with Bricks, a guide to New Jersey’s pattern brick architecture. In 2025. the Philadelphia Business Journal selected Matthew to join its class of “40 under 40” honorees for Philadelphia.