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Exhibit Opening: Fall to Pieces: Ingenious Mechanical Puzzles from Around the World

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Spurlock Museum
Location
Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana
Date
Jun 23, 2019   2:00 - 3:30 pm  
Speaker
Philip Nyman, Community Curator
Cost
Free and open to the public.
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Through the centuries, people have devised imaginative, even diabolical, puzzles to test our wits. This exhibit is a selection of the world’s most famous mechanical puzzles. Enjoy their artistry and creativity—and try your hand at solving some of them. Join Guest Community Curator Philip Nyman for a talk and demonstrations of some of the puzzles from his collection.

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