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Reception Hall | Gift Shop | Resource Library | Workshop | Folk Art | Staircase Gallery


RECEPTION HALL

1st Floor Showcase
1st Floor Showcase
International Instruments
International Instruments
Wall Map
Wall Map
Folk Art of Four Continents: In Four Cases, Count the countries or the butterflies! What correspondences & differences do you see?

Guess What? Answers available from our docents and shopkeepers!

International Instruments: Try us out, softly and with respect!

Word Play: Add your words for butterfly, grandma, grandpa to our posters.

Wall Art: self-guided tour

"Marilyn Monroe" Siren's Rest Room!



GIFT SHOP & CRAFT KITS

Gift Shop Display
Gift Shop Display
Gifts priced from $1.00 enable even the youngest visitors to take home a world treasure.



RESOURCE LIBRARY

library
Soft chairs for reading and tables for homework/research
Extraordinary Resource Library for children, adults, teachers. Books on overnight loan to members only, but we do have soft chairs for reading and tables for homework/research. Also, videos, cassettes, compact discs.



WORKSHOP

Workshop
Sand Painting Workshop conducted by Segun Olorunfemi
during Mariposa's second birthday celebration
Jane Kronheim Political Folkart: Fun Elections without Chads

Segun Olorunfemi Artworks in sand, yarn, ink, batik

Community Artwork by Patrick Welby and Jane Kronheim

Quilts by Ann Winsor

World Games to Play

Computer to view our cultural CD-Rom collection

Kitchen

Moses Eaton "New England" Rest Room!



FOLK ART CORNER

Folk Art
Folk Art


CAMEL CARAVAN STAIRCASE GALLERY

Camel Stair
Follow the Camel Caravan staircase through Maori Country to the Silk Road
Follow the camel caravan through the modern world to Ubar, the surviving marionette camel from New England Marionette Opera's final performance, Amahl and the Night Visitors, December 1998.



Go to » 2nd Floor »



When children are raised with respect and curiosity towards
other cultures, the world will know more peace and less war.


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Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center
26 Main Street ~ Peterborough, New Hampshire ~ 03458
Southern New Hampshire's Year Round Arts Community
603.924.4555


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