PENNSYLVANIA
Revolution Center gets new site for museum
Published: July 02, 2009, 12:30 am
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PHILADELPHIA (AP)—A group that for years has been trying to build a Revolutionary War museum within the boundaries of Valley Forge National Historical Park is moving the multimillion-dollar project to downtown Philadelphia.
Officials with American Revolution Center and the National Park Service on Wednesday said they have reached an agreement to open the museum on the site of a former visitor center in Independence National Historical Park, near Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell and other historic sites.
In exchange, the Revolution Center is turning over a 78-acre parcel of private land it owns at Valley Forge to the Park Service.
It has not been determined whether the Revolution Center will use or replace the existing building, which dates from the 1976 Bicentennial and now houses classrooms and archaeological demonstrations, spokesman Topper Ray said.
The Park Service, some neighbors and preservation groups long argued that the Valley Forge development was too commercial and would diminish the landscape and history of the encampment, 22 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
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