Located in close proximity to the Liberty Bell Center and the Independence Hall which is listed as a World Heritage Site, the National Constitution Center(NCC) is a place full of sense of nationhood. Along with these historical sites where the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted, the building is really near the center city in Philadelphia, crowded with people coming and going. I think it has an excellent heritage tourism location so that American citizens can easily approach the place and remind themselves of how this country’s settled and what kind of thought was based on it. The NCC just shows that this center assists in the formation of providing special stories about the Constitution and the history of freedom, which is historically America’s the most important heritage. Especially, visual effect, titled ‘Freedom Rising,’ in the Kimmel Theater was enough to give that kind of impression, although I don’t understand why the narration makes wrong assumption that all the people in the theater would be citizens of the United States. I guess it might be just a part of play. However, president’s House seems to tell another stories with the same topic; slavery. I think it is very interesting that very iconic symbol of American Independence happened at the same time of emersion of kind of opposite conception. And yet, all these sites are raising the spirit of patriotism in many ways, preserving
No comments:
Post a Comment