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As part of President Donald Trump’s initiative to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, the Institute of Museum and Library Services recently launched a “Freedom Truck Tour,” rolling out a mobile museum that students and families can visit to learn more about the nation’s founding.
The Freedom Truck tour is part of the president’s executive order “Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday” to organize and execute events celebrating the semiquincentennial. The first stop occurred on January 21 at the charter school Revolution Academy in North Carolina. The tour is inspired by the Bicentennial Freedom Train, which traveled throughout the United States in 1976 to celebrate the nation’s 200th anniversary.
The trucks will contain original historical documents that Americans can view, along with state-of-the-art interactive exhibits, including artificial intelligence displays that bring heroes of the founding generation to life. Some of the trucks will also feature artifacts from Glenn Beck’s American Journey Experience museum.
Department of Labor Deputy Secretary Keith Sonderling emphasized the importance of bringing history to Americans where they are.
“The Freedom 250 Mobile Museum Tour brings American history out of textbooks and into communities, classrooms, and workplaces across the country,” Sonderling said. “By connecting our nation’s past to the future of the American workforce, this initiative helps inspire the next generation to understand the values of opportunity, innovation, and service that make this country exceptional.”
A press release for the tour explained that the Freedom Trucks are “the largest ever traveling exhibits teaching about America’s founding.” The tour will consist of interactive mobile museums stationed inside six trucks. A description of the event stated that exhibits include an “Are You a Loyalist or Patriot?” quiz, a kiosk for visitors to sign their name digitally to the Declaration of Independence, and a “wall of 50 American heroes.”
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy joined the kickoff event and spoke more in-depth about the wall of heroes.
“It’s a montage of just great Americans, and you look at what America and its innovators and its artists and its poets, its creators, what it’s offered to the world, it is like nothing else in the world,” Duffy said, according to the Carolina Journal. “And those Walls of Heroes exist because of the freedom that this country has.”
Duffy added that America’s system of free enterprise has led to the creation of the “most remarkable men and women that are in the Wall of Heroes in this museum.”
Prager University and Hillsdale College reportedly partnered with the Department of Education to provide the content for the truck exhibits. Special Event Vehicles Co. supplied the trucks.
Revolution Academy encouraged students to participate in the museum exhibit and provided them with special passes. A parent of one student explained that the tour stop at the school was important because “not all the schools have a trip to D.C., and they have incredible historical stuff there that everyone can see.”
The next stop will be at the NRB International Christian Media Convention in Nashville from February 17-20. The annual convention is a gathering for Christian communicators who work in “radio, TV, film, church media, or digital marketing.”
All six trucks in the tour are planned to be in operation by March.
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This is great and I hope it will be both inspirational and educational. However, I would recommend they have security with them at all times because the left wing lunatic protesters will be following this and use every opportunity possible to disrupt and intimidate people who are there to attend.
Only the 2nd coming of liberty matters to Jesus.
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