Product Description
Large-format illustrated hardcover in original dust jacket.
Approximately quarto size, extensively illustrated throughout in full color with museum installations, sculpture, political-history exhibits, and educational displays centered on democracy, tolerance, civil rights, religion, immigration, and American civic identity.
This visually striking museum publication serves as both exhibition guide and philosophical statement for Philadelphia's National Liberty Museum, founded by publisher and philanthropist Irvin J.
Borowsky.
The volume documents permanent and rotating exhibitions spanning world leaders, freedom movements, religious liberty, voting rights, the Holocaust, Medal of Honor recipients, and international human-rights figures including Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and Andrei Sakharov.
Artwork featured includes contemporary glass sculpture, mixed media installations, and patriotic Americana displays.
The production quality is high, with glossy coated stock, sharp photographic reproductions, and sophisticated exhibition design throughout.
A handsome and increasingly uncommon institutional art/museum title with crossover appeal to collectors of Americana, museum studies, political history, and Philadelphia cultural history.
Book condition: Near Fine.
Clean black cloth boards with bright silver spine/front titling, sharp corners, solid binding, and clean glossy interior pages.
No ownership marks, library markings, or noticeable interior defects observed.
Dust jacket condition: Very Good+.
Mild edge rubbing and light shelf wear with a few tiny edge nicks; unclipped with strong color and gloss retention.
Edition/printing determination: no later-printing statement or number line observed; museum-issued production and internal historical references indicate an early-2000s first printing, likely circa 2001-2003.
Irvin J.
Borowsky (1924-2014) was a Philadelphia publisher, media entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known for founding the National Liberty Museum in 2000.
A longtime advocate for civic education and democratic values, Borowsky envisioned the museum as an institution dedicated to dialogue, freedom, and cultural understanding.
His projects frequently combined public history, educational outreach, and contemporary art in order to promote tolerance and civic engagement.
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