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Want to volunteer in the Invention at Play exhibition and Spark!Lab hands on center? Volunteers help visitors explore invention and innovation by facilitating hands on activities, managing interactive exhibits, and sharing stories and information about American invention.
Interested? Download the volunteer application form!
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Ever wonder how exhibitions are developed? If so, we invite you to join the planning for our upcoming exhibition on "places of invention." Be sure to take the survey to share your ideas with us. Thanks!
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In October, the Lemelson Center received a grant in the amount of $2.6 million from the National Science Foundation to fund our Places of Invention exhibition project.
Places of Invention, a planned 3,500-square-foot exhibition at the National Museum of American History scheduled to open in 2014, will feature a selection of “hot spots” of invention and innovation--places where a critical mass of inventive people, networks, institutions, funding and other resources come together and creativity flourishes. Focusing on the mid-19th century to the present, each exhibition area will have hands-on experiences based on inventive skill-building and illustrating the ways that place and social collaboration shape the inventive process.
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From Lemelson Center News Blast, November 2010
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