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THE US PHILADELPHIA DESTINATIONS


FAR LEFT: National Constitution Center


LEFT: Independence Hall


The Museum of the American


Revolution is equally grand and serious, but takes you through the causes, battles and aftermath of the war with considerable flair. There’s a high “Ooh, I didn’t know that” quotient, including the Great Union Flag – which had the


Union Jack in the corner rather than stars – that could have easily ended up as the independent American flag. Also fascinating are the attempts to draw the uninterested French-speaking Quebecois into fighting off the British, and the origins of the term


‘USA’, which started off being branded on gunpowder casks, and then appearing on soldiers’ buttons.


Something altogether different is the Mutter Museum, which is officially about medicine and surgery, but attracts people


through sheer weirdness and ghoulishness. It has an amazing collection of deformed skulls, body parts in jars, gruesome old-school surgical implements and even microscopic slides of Einstein’s brain. It delves into deformities, psychotic delusions, poisons and diseases, and is either going to totally gross you out or have you utterly transfixed. If there’s one absolute must-do in Philly, however, it’s a visit to the Eastern State Penitentiary, a fortress-like former prison on the hill. This hulking, enormously atmospheric beast of a place was staggeringly influential, providing the design for hundreds of prisons around the world. And the superb audio guides don’t just explore this particular prison’s past and escape stories – they go into the whole system of incarceration around the world. It’s thought- provoking, hard-hitting and intensely memorable.


27 September 2018 travelweekly.co.uk 65


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