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The Word Museum Exploring the literary treasures of the Rosenbach
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May 1, 2008
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Reinvention may just be the oldest American tradition, and there are few museums that embody that tradition quite like the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia.
The museum is in two joined townhouses on a quiet residential block in Center City. You could walk by every day without a glance-the sort of place that you have to know about to notice. Inside, though, it is strange and sprawling, weird and wondrous, an adjective-exhausting collection that tells an American story. Actually, hundreds of them.
In my day there, I went from Thomas Jefferson's handwritten lists of his slaves to Maurice Sendak's original sketches, then spent an hour deciphering Emily Dickinson's elegantly ...
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