What is It? What does it do? A different kind of fun puzzle!
150 HANDS-ON MYSTERY OBJECTS! WHATCHAMACALLITS! - a funny & puzzling, hands-on event for your family - What are these 150 mystery objects? NOVEMBER 6-15, 2009 Saturday & Sunday hours: TBA: drop-in, introductions given on the hour Each weekend date has a Lightenng Round! with a prize. Weekday times: available for groups by appointment. Admission: $5/person, all ages. Bring grandpa! GROUP DISCOUNTS*
MYSTERY OBJECTS! An odd and funny hands-on 8th annual "museum" puzzling event & experience with more than 150 curiosities and whatchamacallits for you to browse through and touch, trying to figure out what they are. Clues are posted for some of the gizzmos, gadgets, devices, and strange antiques, the clues may help or may not. Antiques, toys, tools, thingamajigs, parts & pieces, and even some things we don't know!
Be a history detective, a weekend anthropologist, a budding mechanic, a puzzle solver, an armchair engineer, or just plain curious! This is hands-on fun mixed with thinking and a great inter-generational outing. Try curious "toys," wonder about tools from 100 years ago, puzzle over antiques. The Burlington Historical Society's Museum has helped in past years with loaned objects. This unique event has been recommended by the Chicago Tribune Midwest Events travel column; Nick, Jr. magazine, and covered by FOX TV Channel 6 and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Come to see what the fun is about.
Hours TBA Admission charge per person, all ages, yes even young ones. Children must be with an adult. Discounts for groups of 20 or more paid in advance*.
~ ALL AGES WONDER ~
What are these things anyhow? Three generations wonder about this novelty science object and the antique tool in front of them. More than 150 MYSTERY OBJECTS are waiting for you. Bring friends, families, church groups, your club, or your scout troops. It's a unique outing with playful thinking combined with science, history, engineering, toys, cultures, and hands-on fun. Advance group discounts for 20 or more . Logic Puzzle Museum, special event.
Bus tours: call for details for unloading location. Tour Companies: this makes a great mystery tour or fun stop on any outing. Adults, seniors, and families all enjoy this hands-on event, sponsored by the Logic Puzzle Museum.
*Groups of 20 or more: 10% discount for pre-paid tickets, use any day with group reservations Groups of 40 or more people: 20% discount for pre-paid tickets, use any day with group reservations & even Evening Hoursavailable for groups of 25 or more, prepaid.
And also come to the Tongue Twister Contest Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 6 pm sharp. Separate $5/person admission. Prizes for everyone in the audience and more prizesfor winning contestants! Laughter promised! http://www.logicpuzzlemuseum.org/gpage.html1.html
all information subject to change
Many thanks to the volunteers who made the 2005 event possible: Maggie Christensen, Matt Becker, Jo Ann Toelle, Chuck Toelle, Judith Schulz, Penny Hallet, Doug Harris, Don VandeSand of the Burlington Historical Museum, George & Helen Karcher, Charissa Considine, and many others Many thanks to the volunteers who made the 2006 event possible: Maggie & Ken Christensen, Jo Ann Toelle, Judith Schulz, Penny Hallet, Doug Harris, George & Helen Karcher, students from PAC of Burlington and many others Many thanks to the volunteers who made the 2007 event possible: Maggie & Ken Christensen, Jo Ann Toelle, Judith Schulz, Penny Hallet, Doug Harris, George & Helen Karcher, and many others Many thanks to the volunteers who made the 2008 event possible: Maggie Christensen, Jo Ann Toelle, Judith Schulz, Penny Hallet, Doug Harris, George & Helen Karcher, Lynn Baumgartner, Jennifer Brown, Joey Greenamyer, Katrin Schulz-Berg and many others (If we forgot to list your name, please let us know...)
If you would like to help sponsor this event or help at this event, give us a call (262) 763-3946.
LOGIC PUZZLE MUSEUM located in southeastern Wisconsin at 533 Milwaukee Avenue downtown Burlington,Wisconsin 53105 USA (262) 763-3946 Free parking www.logicpuzzlemuseum.org
