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The World Awareness Children's Museum in Glens Falls, NY brings the world to kids

By Sarah LaDuke

Published February 23, 2023 at 10:45 AM EST

https://worldchildrensmuseum.org/

The World Awareness Children's Museum in Glens Falls, New York has been a New York State Designated Charter Museum since 1995 with a mission to bring information about diverse world cultures to children in our area. The museum's collection is made of pieces from 140 countries including over 8,000 artifacts.

Bethanie Muska Lawrence is the Executive Director of The World Awareness Children’s Museum.

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Sarah LaDuke

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.

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