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The Spaceship Solution: How museums can use experimental technology to solve problems

By Erica Harmon

Picture this: children and adults alike standing on the grounds of a museum on an early winter morning, sipping hot cocoa. Their eyes reach upward as they watch a three-foot spaceman created by the hands of an artist for this sole mission, …

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