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Count me as being vehemently opposed to this arrangement. Having seen that collection, I know it is nothing short of spectacular. The airport terminal that is the Gettysburg Visitor Center already fails to display the vast majority of the artifacts in the Rosensteel Collection, claiming lack of display space. If that's the case, what are the odds of even a small percentage of these items ever being displayed again? Slim to none.
Shame on Ed Rendell for breaching the agreement to fund a new museum.
These items should be on display at the museum in Harrisburg, where at least they would be seen, instead of languishing in storage.
The Constitution Center exhibit will be great. I attended (Cash was there too) an event with Jeffrey Rosen at Dickinson College in March, and know him to be a dedicated and enthusiastic director of a great project. But that exhibit is NOT a Civil War exhibit. It's constitutional law exhibit, and there is no place in it for most of the artifacts in the MOLLUS Museum's collection.
I will, however, be pleased to see some of those artifacts back home in Philadelphia where they belong, which will be the best thing about that exhibit.
Shame on Ed Rendell for breaching the agreement to fund a new museum.
These items should be on display at the museum in Harrisburg, where at least they would be seen, instead of languishing in storage.
The Constitution Center exhibit will be great. I attended (Cash was there too) an event with Jeffrey Rosen at Dickinson College in March, and know him to be a dedicated and enthusiastic director of a great project. But that exhibit is NOT a Civil War exhibit. It's constitutional law exhibit, and there is no place in it for most of the artifacts in the MOLLUS Museum's collection.
I will, however, be pleased to see some of those artifacts back home in Philadelphia where they belong, which will be the best thing about that exhibit.
Civil War Museum transfers collection to Gettysburg with Constitution Center exhibit planned
The homeless Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, steward of what scholars regard as one of the finest collections of Civil War materials anywhere but possessing no place to display them, reached an agreement Monday to transfer ownership of its roughly 3,000 artifacts to the Gettysburg Foundation...
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