I visited on a 5th grade field trip about 1990. Our whole class was encouraged to line up and touch the Liberty Bell. I definitely have a memory of me and my friends singing a song we made up about it when we left to go to the Betsey Ross house and buy the facsimile colonial currency. It was de rigeuer to do this and buy astronaut ice cream at the Franklin Institute during this era. Lol!

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I work at a nonprofit, and we just had a field trip there. I agree that Gwen is fantastic, and I highly recommend people go. The presentation was really powerful and touching. It is definitely worth a visit. Gwen and her husband founded and run the museum with objects they collected. You can tell they have a real passion.