New Exhibit Encourages Kids to be 'Heroes of Character'

by KYW’s Karin Phillips
The National Liberty Museum is holding a poster contest involving its new exhibit, Heroes of Character -- teaching young people about what it takes to be a hero of character.

Peggie Sweeney is vice president and project manager of the new Heroes of Character exhibit and web site at the National Liberty Museum. She says the new exhibit, for the first time, takes all of the teaching themes of the Museum -- character development, conflict resolution, rights and responsibilities of living in freedom -- and puts them into four poster interactives:

“Young people and families are challenged with ethnical decision making in an interesting way and they get to make choices and get feedback from those choices and they also learn from the life lessons of heroes like Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Roberto Clemente and many others that are featured.”

Go to heroesofcharacter.org.

NATIONAL LIBERTY MUSEUM “HEROES OF CHARACTER” Posters:

In conjunction with Heroes of Character, an exhibition dedicated to highlighting people who uphold virtues of freedom and democracy, Philadelphia’s National Liberty Museum has worked with local firm Quaker City Mercantile to produce five posters inspired by the exhibition. Five contemporary artists -  Dave Kinsey, Jim Houser, Jeremy Tinder, Thom Lessner and Allison Cole – put their spin on five heroes – Yao Ming, Mother Teresa, Susan B. Anthony, Roberto Clemente, and César Chávez.

The posters are for sale direct through the museum site, and proceeds go to funding the museum’s mission.

Philadelphia's National Liberty Museum is promoting its Heroes of Character exhibition, website and education program with posters created by Philadelphia-based agency, Quaker City Mercantile.

Other posters in the series feature Yao Ming, Mother Teresa, Roberto Clemente and César Chávez. Posters will be mailed at no charge to the first 1,000 people and 5,000 teachers, respectively, to "like" the exhibit on Facebook.

"At the National Liberty Museum, our mission of character education extends beyond our physical walls," said Gwen Borowsky, chief executive officer of the National Liberty Museum. "These images are another way we're engaging students, teachers and parents across the country with our Heroes of Character exhibition."