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National Constitution Center · Old City / Independence Mall

Pennsylvania's Founding: How a City and a Colony Shaped America's Civic DNA

Upcoming30 September 2026 – 3 January 2027·Free

Free show with Drexel University on how Penn's 1681 "holy experiment" and the planned city of Philadelphia shaped American civic habits, with Atwater Kent artefacts and student-built map and timeline interactives.

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The Pennsylvania Evening Post of 6 July 1776, the first newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence

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Museum of the American Revolution

A quilt from Jesse Krimes's Elegy Quilts series at The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Jesse Krimes: Elegy Quilts

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Installation view of You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry at The Fabric Workshop and Museum

You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

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African American Museum in Philadelphia

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Museum of the American Revolution

Military8 min walk

Vox Populi

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The Fabric Workshop and Museum

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