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TOYS: The Inside Story
If your parents never let you break open your Etch A Sketch to find out how it operates, or if you’ve been wondering how Hungry Hungry Hippos manage to gobble those marbles so quickly, you’ll love Toys: The Inside Story. Treat yourself to an inside peek at many vintage and iconic toys that reveals the mechanics of how they work.
Toys: The Inside Story is a whimsical, hands-on exhibition where museum visitors will learn about the fundamentals of engineering, the creativity of innovation, and the iterative process of creating a functioning machine.
Toys includes twelve interactive stations that illustrate the simple mechanisms commonly found in toys. Visitors can create their own playful contraptions of gears, pulleys, linkages, cams, and circuits—the same mechanics that operate drawbridges, cars, cranes, and so much else in our engineered world.
Mechanical literacy, or understanding the way things work, is a stepping stone to interests and careers in engineering and technology. Through compelling large-scale photographs, the exhibition also highlights jobs that require mechanical skills, from rigging a ship with pulleys to fitting an amputee with a customize prosthetic, showcasing how engineering is fundamental to a variety of rewarding STEM careers.
Generously sponsored by:
Chroma Technology Corporation
Adimab LLC
Bio X Cell
FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.
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