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When:
September 17, 2024 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
2024-09-17T10:00:00-04:00
2024-09-17T17:00:00-04:00
Where:
Youth Museum of Southern WV
509 Ewart Ave
Beckley, WV 25801
USA
509 Ewart Ave
Beckley, WV 25801
USA
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Our new exhibit is officially opened and will be at the Museum until Christmas.
How People Make Things, inspired by the factory tour segments from the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood television series, offers hands-on activities using real factory tools and machines to create objects with four manufacturing processes – molding, cutting, deforming and assembly. Many common manufactured products help tell the story of how people, ideas and technology transform raw materials into finished products.
This exhibit brings children close to the real stuff, the nuts and bolts of how products are manufactured, which is very easy to feel removed from these days.
How People Make Things was created by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Family Communications, Inc. (FCI), the producer of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and the University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments (UPCLOSE). The exhibit was made possible with support from the National Science Foundation and The Grable Foundation.