Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary year with America’s Founding, National Constitution Center – Feb 13
Posted by National Constitution Center on December 9, 2025
Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary year with America’s Founding, the National Constitution Center’s dynamic new permanent gallery opening Friday, February 13, 2026 — just in time for a special Presidents Day weekend. This immersive experience takes visitors on a journey from the colonies’ rising tensions with Great Britain through the drafting, ratification, and adoption of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Featuring rare artifacts and hands-on digital interactives, the gallery brings to life the debates over liberty, equality, and government by consent that shaped the nation’s earliest chapters.
As visitors explore five thematic sections — Declaring Independence, The American Revolution, Creating the U.S. Constitution, Ratifying the Constitution, and Drafting the Bill of Rights — they’ll encounter artifacts that illuminate the founding era. From Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and Elizabeth Drinker’s wartime diary to a rare first official printing of the Constitution, America’s Founding reveals how a bold experiment in self-government was launched.
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