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?�Toy story?� makes debut in Vermont this summer
By Kevin Coburn
Manager, Public Relations
Montshire Museum of Science

If your parents never let you break open your Etch A Sketch?� to find out how it works, you?�ll love Toys: The Inside Story, now open at the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vt. The new exhibition illustrates simple mechanisms commonly found in toys, and lets visitors create their own toy-like combinations of gears, pulleys, linkages, cams, and circuits.

Toys will be on display every day at the Museum through September 9. The museum unmasks the amazing collection of switches, cams and motors that make an Elmo doll dance and Mr. Machine?� run. Adults will discover the ?�inner life?� of favorite toys from their childhood like the Etch A Sketch?� and the Operation?� game while children will delight in the many hands-on components.

Toys: The Inside Story is free with Museum admission. (Admission is $9 for adults, $7 for children ages 3-17, with children under 3 free). The Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week throughout the year, with new extended hours 10 am through 7:30 p.m. each Friday.

By the way, Green Mountain Railroad is now operating weekend trips to the Montshire every weekend from June 30-September 2. The White River Flyer leaves the White River Jct. depot at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and 2:30 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday, arriving 25 minutes later at the museum’s front doorstep.

The Flyer also offers short round-trip excursions from the Museum to Thetford, Vermont, and back (these trips leave the Montshire at 11:45 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. These excursions last about an hour round-trip. Visit the White River Flyer Summer Schedule for more details.

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