Using present to safeguard history for future
A rendering shows how visitors to the Chester County Historical Society will be transported through 300 years of history in the new exhibition space, which will feature county notables such as pioneering industrialist Rebecca Lukens.
Marble, roses and mushrooms enjoy symbiotic Chester County connections that represent one of myriad insights available to visitors of the Chester County Historical Society (CCHS). Ellen Endslow, CCHS’s director of collections, promised to explain the relationship, but not until CCHS officials unveiled preliminary plans for a major makeover of its space that will alter the way such information is disseminated. Work has already begun on…