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The video game company Her Interactive adopted the slogan “For Girls Who Aren’t Afraid of…
Joe L. Frost, the renowned scholar and educator who advocated for the importance of free…
In 1976, scholar Barbara Bader defined a picture book as “text, illustrations, total design; an…
This month we opened our new maker space, Play Lab. It’s a bright, busy place,…
For as long as play has existed, humans have been making dolls in some form…
On a recent morning, I was out early at our local Wegmans supermarket. Because the…
A recent addition to The Strong museum’s collection got me thinking about how gender intersects…
One of my favorite recent museum acquisitions is a package of 1990s Pink Panther lunch…
We’ve recently opened Skyline Climb, a high adventure ropes course that soars high in our…
Following a visit to historic Williamsburg, Virginia, and a Christmas shopping trip for her nieces,…
Have you ever wondered how some of your favorite board games were developed? Did the…
We receive lots of donations every year at The Strong, from single items to accumulations…
“Charming,” “whimsical,” “masterpiece,” “pretty funny” are just a few of the words used to describe…
By 1980, Jerry Lawson was ready for a change. The 40-year-old electrical engineer had spent…
The Japanese culture of kawaii—loosely meaning cute—emerged in the 1970s when teenage girls with extra…
“Barbie quite simply changed my life.” Many of us can say that, in one way…
During the first few years after the introduction of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) in 1973,…