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The Strong is an interactive, collections-based educational institution in Rochester, New York, United States, devoted to the study and exploration of play. [1] It carries out this mission through six programmatic arms called "Play Partners": The National Museum of Play; National Toy Hall of Fame; World Video Game Hall of Fame
The Strong National Museum of Play (also known as just The Strong Museum or simply the Strong) is part of The Strong in Rochester, New York, United States.Established in 1969 and initially based on the personal collection of Rochester native Margaret Woodbury Strong, the museum opened to the public in 1982, after several years of planning, cataloguing, and exhibition development for the museum ...
Rochester History (January, 1961). online Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine; McKelvey, Blake. "A History of the Police of Rochester, New York." Rochester History (1963) 25#4 pp 1–27. Online [permanent dead link ] Perkins, Dexter. "Rochester One Hundred Years Ago." Rochester History Vol. I, No. 3. July, 1939. Rosenberg-Naparsteck ...
With dad Chris Mascaro, Rochester, looking on, young Jasper Mascaro, 2, is hands-on as he looks over the giant Kugel Ball fountain outside the Strong National Museum of Play in the new ...
George Rollie Adams (born September 11, 1941), is an American educator, historian, author, and museum professional. [1] As president and CEO of The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, from 1987 through 2016, Adams led the development of the world's first collections-based history museum devoted solely to the study of play and its critical role in learning and human ...
[1] [2] The museum began the International Center for the History of Electronic Games in 2009, announced the formation of the hall of fame in February 2015, and opened it on June 4, 2015. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is located in a dedicated part of the "ESL Digital Worlds: High Score" exhibit at the National Museum of Play; prior to an expansion of ...
Strong was an avid collector, especially of toys and her large collection formed the basis for the Strong National Museum of Play. [1] Margaret was the second and last child of John Charles Woodbury (1859 in Rochester, NY – 1937) and the former Alice Motley (the first sibling died at childbirth).
Rochester was once home to one to one of best music clubs in nation. Scorgie's, on Andrews Street, was the place to go in the '80s for punk and New Wave music. Rolling Stone magazine called ...