WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Museum of American History has reopened after a two-year, $85 million renovation. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell read President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on Friday morning to a crowd of at least 200 people on the museum's steps. Costumed historic characters portraying George and Martha Washington, among others, are on hand for a three-day festival to celebrate the reopening. Inside, visitors found favorite exhibits such as Kermit the Frog and a gallery devoted to the American presidency. A line quickly formed outside the Star-Spangled Banner gallery. The museum opened with the firing of a cannon from the era when the poem that became the National Anthem was written in 1814.
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