Here’s the idea: invite people to Providence’s awesome bar/restaurant/nonprofit gallery, AS220, and give them a space to sit down, have a beer or glass of wine, and make puppets based on popular Providence museum exhibits. This year — the 2nd Annual Museum Puppet Throwdown — has a theme: “Puppets for the Planet.”  We’ll be creating spontaneous puppetshows on the theme for upload to YouTube via...

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Children’s museums are up to something pretty extraordinary, and the day long “reImagining” session before the Association of Children’s Museums annual conference is a sign of how impactful this re-imagining might be.  There’s a theme emerging, that museums are becoming more “pervasive, everywhere, all the time” though a combination of community relationships and technology. This is a theme we’ve...

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