
Liberty Bell Museum
About Liberty Bell Museum
The Liberty Bell Museum, also the Liberty Bell Shrine Museum was a non-profit organization and museum located in Zion's United Church of Christ, formerly Zion's Reformed Church, in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The museum was located in the basement of the church, where the Liberty Bell, an iconic and globally-recognized symbol of America's independence and freedom, was hidden from the British Army by Allentown-area American patriots during the American Revolutionary War from September 1777 to June 1778.
The museum was constructed and opened in 1962, and included exhibits relating to the Liberty Bell and subjects including liberty, freedom, patriotism and local history. It also contained a full-size replica of the Liberty Bell, one of 55 replicas cast in France in 1950, for a U.S. Treasury Department savings bond promotion, which visitors were permitted to ring.
Also on display was Allentown's Liberty Bell, which was cast in 1769, and was believed to have been rung on July 8, 1776, to announce the public reading in Allentown of the Declaration of Independence.
The museum closed in 2023 after the church was sold.
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01PennsylvaniaUnknown authorUnknown author · Public domain
02Arrival of Liberty Bell in AllentownDavis Gray · Public domain
03Historic plaques and reflection of Zion Reformed Church, Allentown, PAZeete · CC BY-SA 4.0
04Liberty Bell Shrine, Zion Reformed Church, Allentown, PA - entranceZeete · CC BY-SA 4.0
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