The 21st Show

Smithsonian Institution comes to rural communities

 
Spark! Places of Innovation” traveling exhibition in Chatsworth.

Spark! Places of Innovation” traveling exhibition in Chatsworth. Facebook page of Illinois Humanties

Spark! Places of Innovation is a traveling museum exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution that puts rural communities in the spotlight. The exhibit highlights small-towns  and rural America in general for their innovations and inventions for society. And Spark! makes the effort to actually visit small-towns, showcasing to locals the big impact their small-town can have. They just finished up an exhibition in Chatsworth, about 45 miles northeast of Bloomington-Normal, and their next stop is Rushville, about 55 miles northwest of Springfield. 

Guest:

Tiffany Cheng

Project Director and Multimedia Specialist, Museum on Main Street