Leading Ladies: Puppet Making
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Celebrate the New York City women who have championed for change. Explore rare artifacts, documents, costumes, photographs, and audio-visual materials in the exhibitions Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics and Rebel Women: Defying Victorianism to learn about their stories. Choose a figure as inspiration to make your own activist paper puppet with a message for change.
Family programs are free with Museum admission and for Members, and geared toward families with children ages 6–12 years old. Activities are designed for adults and children to complete together.
Related Exhibition - October 11, 2017 - August 5, 2018
Beyond Suffrage
Family and Community Engagement Programs are made possible in part by the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; Sy Syms Foundation; Lone Pine Foundation; and Louis Wiley, Jr.
The Frederick A.O. Schwarz Education Center is endowed by grants from The Thompson Family Foundation Fund, the F.A.O. Schwarz Family Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Endowment, and other generous donors.
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