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Building on the Museum’s unique resources, the Lemelson Center follows three key avenues of exploration into invention and innovation: finding new ways to record the past by preserving and increasing access to records and artifacts; broadening our understanding of history through research, discussion, and dissemination of ideas; and looking toward the future by developing programs aimed at encouraging young people to invent.
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Featured programs include the Invention at Play exhibition; Innovative Lives, bringing inventors and children together for interactive programs; annual symposia on topics addressing the history of invention and innovation; Spark!Lab, the newest hands-on space for families and others visiting the National Museum of American History which shows the real story behind an inventor’s work; and other smaller exhibitions at the Museum.
The Lemelson Center also publishes a monthly electronic newsletter, Prototype, with stories about inventors, history of innovation, some trivia, activities for families and students, and much more. The Center also produces a regular podcast series, Prototype Online: Inventive Voices, featuring many first-person stories from inventors themselves. Listeners to Prototype Online can gain a better understanding of inventors - their motivations, successes, and failures - and the processes involved in creating an invention.
The Lemelson Center was founded in 1995 through generous gifts from Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson and the Lemelson Foundation.
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Contact
E-mail: Contact form
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