Freedom Rising:

“The National Constitution Center, in Philadelphia is already one of the nation’s greatest museums, and perhaps the most challenging of them all…

“Nothing in the center is more dynamic than its multimedia orientation, Freedom Rising. An actor strides to the pit of a steeply banked theater-in-the-round and asks the audience, ”What makes us Americans?”

For the next seventeen minutes, that actor prowls the theater, deploying sophisticated technology and personal passion alike to tell a riveting, revolutionary tale of the Republic and to ask at the end as she did at the outset,

“What will we do with Freedom?”

“…That is a million visitors a year coming to some consciousness that they are the ultimate keepers of the Constitution. It is a good start.”

–Michael Zuckerman

University of Pennsylvania

Journal of American History

Vol. 91, Issue 3

“This stunning combination of media technology and theatrical techniques with a live narrator creates a genuinely immersive environment in which the audience can see themselves as a force in the life of the Constitution, and the Constitution as an ongoing force in all our lives.”

–The Themed Entertainment Association

TEA, the international association representing the world’s leading creators, developers and designers of museums and theme parks,on presenting its annual “Thea” Award to Freedom Rising .