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“Spark! Places of Innovation” Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition
Alamance County Public Libraries is hosting the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibit, Spark! Places of Innovation, October 9 through November 19, 2025 at May Memorial Library during library hours.
Spark! Places of Innovation A traveling exhibition that explores the unique combination of places, people, and circumstances that sparks innovation and invention in rural communities. Inspired by an exhibition by the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, the exhibition features stories gathered from diverse communities across the nation. Photographs, engaging interactives, objects, videos, and digital stories bring a multilayered experience to reveal the leaders, challenges, successes, and future of innovation in each town. Technical, social, cultural, or artistic– every sort of innovation story is as unique as each community and will be represented in Spark! Places of Innovation. #SparkPlaces
Spark! Places of Innovation is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the North Carolina Humanities Council. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress
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