{"id":112793,"date":"2026-02-13T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112793\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:00:10","slug":"nccs-americas-founding-gallery-opens-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112793\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC\u2019s \u2018America\u2019s Founding\u2019 gallery opens Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>As the U.S. gears up to celebrate its 250th birthday, the National Constitution Center aims to tell the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/museum\/exhibits-programs\/americas-founding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America\u2019s founding<\/a> through artifacts, highlighting the experiences of everyday people and how debates that happened then are still being held today.\n<\/p>\n<p>The new gallery, titled \u201cAmerica\u2019s Founding,\u201d provides attendees with an interactive experience on the early conflicts leading up to the creation of the U.S. Constitution, including early protests, the American Revolution and the adoption of the Bill of Rights.\n<\/p>\n<p>Elena Popchock, senior manager of exhibit content, said the team worked to present the history with enough depth and clarity so every visitor \u2014 regardless of their background knowledge \u2014 could leave the gallery understanding how the country moved through that era to achieve independence.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were at the heart of it all and had really difficult decisions to make,\u201d Popchock said. \u201cThey ultimately did the best they could with what they felt like could work and didn\u2019t always know if it would work out.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[41249,7346,69,4001,71,70],"class_list":["post-112793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-founding-fathers","tag-national-constitution-center","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-250","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}