--- title: The Statue of Liberty's History in 90 Seconds | TIME description: The monument was dedicated on Oct. 28, 1886, after a long and tortured journey from an idea to execution canonical: https://time.com/video/DPpn0r9M/ og:title: The Statue of Liberty's History in 90 Seconds og:description: The monument was dedicated on Oct. 28, 1886, after a long and tortured journey from an idea to execution og:url: https://time.com/video/DPpn0r9M/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DPpn0r9M/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Statue of Liberty's History in 90 Seconds twitter:description: The monument was dedicated on Oct. 28, 1886, after a long and tortured journey from an idea to execution twitter:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DPpn0r9M/poster.jpg?width=720 --- # The Statue of Liberty's History in 90 Seconds ## Video: The Statue of Liberty's History in 90 Seconds [Watch (HLS stream): The Statue of Liberty's History in 90 Seconds](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DPpn0r9M.m3u8) (1:34)  _Published 2016-10-26. The monument was dedicated on Oct. 28, 1886, after a long and tortured journey from an idea to execution_ --- Jul 27, 2023 9:03 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [](/video/v5CzaiNA/) 02:53 ### The Statue of Liberty's Original Torch Finds a New Home [](/video/cBM4CiYr/) 00:44 ### 'Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor': The Statue of Liberty’s Famous Immigration Poem [](/video/OUXEdCEF/) 00:20 ### Timelapse of Statue of Liberty in the Snow --- ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Statue of Liberty's History in 90 Seconds","description":"The monument was dedicated on Oct. 28, 1886, after a long and tortured journey from an idea to execution","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DPpn0r9M/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-10-26T01:29:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DPpn0r9M.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/DPpn0r9M/","duration":"PT1M34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/DPpn0r9M/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```