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Experts are currently developing how the exhibits will look. The idea is to make the Revolutionary period real and relatable to visitors, "not just looking at a bunch of, you know, old brown things on a wall," Stephenson said. "Although I do love those old brown things, absolutely," he said with a laugh. "But you can't just do a beautiful building and decorate it with objects. The era in which you could line up a bunch of tea cups on a shelf is just not with us anymore." After a contentious plan was nixed to build the museum at Valley Forge, about 20 miles outside Philadelphia, the American Revolution Center and the National Park Service made a land swap that kept Valley Forge National Park as-is and brought the museum to Philadelphia. Its future home located steps from the National Constitution Center, the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and Carpenter's Hall should benefit all the institutions through program collaborations and artifact exchanges, Stephenson said. Gordon Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scholar of the American Revolution, said while Valley Forge is of especially keen interest to military buffs, the Revolution "infused into our culture everything we believe in: liberty, equality, constitutionalism, all our noblest ideals." "It should be in Philadelphia because that's really where it all began," Wood said. "It's going to be more than the military history; that's a limited view of the
revolution, and it has to be seen in its broadest context." ___ Online:
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