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The National Park Service recognizes the importance of interpretive planning for a site’s success in conveying messages and cultivating a sense of stewardship among visitors. Valley Forge employed JCC&A to use professional, volunteer, and visitor input to develop an interpretive plan for the new Visitor Center. The interpretive purpose outlined in the plan is orientation in many senses of the term. The new experience will give visitors a sense of arrival, an introduction to the context and history, and an orientation to the physical layout of the park.
As part of the design team led by the Boston based Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype (bh+a), JCC&A’s interpretive recommendations will help guide the architectural plans and exhibition development of the new Visitor Center.
Around the winter campfires that dotted these fields, the flame of liberty was somehow kept burning. Something happened at Valley Forge.
-President Gerald Ford, July 4 1976