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==Reception==
==Reception==
[[George Will]] wrote for ''The Washington Post'', "At the other end of the mall sparkles a modernist jewel of America's civic life, the National Constitution Center".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/12/AR2005081201409.html | title = George F. Will – Sense From the Hall of Framers | access-date = 28 March 2013 | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=14 August 2005}}</ref> Jason DeParle wrote for ''[[The New York Times]]'' Learning Network, "Since opening in 2003, [the National Constitution Center] has put forward a vision of constitutional history both left and right have embraced."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20050912monday.html | title = Constitutional Lessons, Old and New, on Display | access-date = 28 March 2013 | work=The New York Times}}</ref> According to ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', "The National Constitution Center has established itself as one of the city's cultural celebs, attracting a million visitors a year, putting pizzazz into civic and educational offerings, hosting blockbuster exhibitions, and attracting the nation's intellectual cognoscenti and media elite like bears to honey."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://articles.philly.com/2006-06-13/news/25402331_1_national-constitution-center-joseph-torsellaconstitutional-issues | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130620202837/http://articles.philly.com/2006-06-13/news/25402331_1_national-constitution-center-joseph-torsellaconstitutional-issues | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 20, 2013 | title = Philadelphia does history right So far, so good for the National Constitution Center. - Philly.com | access-date = 28 March 2013}}</ref>
[[George Will]] wrote for ''The Washington Post'', "At the other end of the mall sparkles a modernist jewel of America's civic life, the National Constitution Center".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/12/AR2005081201409.html | title = George F. Will – Sense From the Hall of Framers | access-date = 28 March 2013 | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=14 August 2005}}</ref> Jason DeParle wrote for ''[[The New York Times]]'' Learning Network, "Since opening in 2003, [the National Constitution Center] has put forward a vision of constitutional history both left and right have embraced."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20050912monday.html | title = Constitutional Lessons, Old and New, on Display | access-date = 28 March 2013 | work=The New York Times}}</ref> According to ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', "The National Constitution Center has established itself as one of the city's cultural celebs, attracting a million visitors a year, putting pizzazz into civic and educational offerings, hosting blockbuster exhibitions, and attracting the nation's intellectual cognoscenti and media elite like bears to honey."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://articles.philly.com/2006-06-13/news/25402331_1_national-constitution-center-joseph-torsellaconstitutional-issues | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130620202837/http://articles.philly.com/2006-06-13/news/25402331_1_national-constitution-center-joseph-torsellaconstitutional-issues | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 20, 2013 | title = Philadelphia does history right So far, so good for the National Constitution Center. - Philly.com | access-date = 28 March 2013}}</ref>
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:2012-07 ncc 01.JPG|alt=Large lobby, with state flags and bunting|State flags in the lobby
File:2012-07 ncc 06.JPG|alt=Models of the U.S. Capitol and another building|Exhibits
File:Statues of Constitution signers at the National Constitution Center.jpg|alt=See caption|Life-sized statues of the [[Signers of the United States Constitution|signers of the Constitution]] in Signers' Hall
</gallery>


==See also==
==See also==