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The Strong
The Strong® is a highly interactive, collections-based museum devoted to the history and exploration of play. It is one of the largest history museums in the United States and one of the leading museums serving families.
The Strong houses the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of historical materials related to play and is home to the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, the National Toy Hall of Fame, the World Video Game Hall of Fame, the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play, the Woodbury School, G2, and the American Journal of Play.
The Strong houses the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of historical materials related to play and is home to the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, the National Toy Hall of Fame, the World Video Game Hall of Fame, the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play, the Woodbury School, G2, and the American Journal of Play.
Mission
The Strong is a highly interactive, collections-based educational institution devoted to the study and exploration of play. The Strong explores play in order to encourage learning, creativity, and discovery and to illuminate the American experience in particular and human experience in general.
The Strong accomplishes this through exhibitions, programs, publications, and other activities that engage, entertain, and enlighten diverse audiences, especially families, children, educators, and scholars.
To support these activities, The Strong collects, preserves, and researches historic objects, manuscripts, and other materials that reflect and document the importance of play in American cultural history in particular.
The Strong accomplishes this through exhibitions, programs, publications, and other activities that engage, entertain, and enlighten diverse audiences, especially families, children, educators, and scholars.
To support these activities, The Strong collects, preserves, and researches historic objects, manuscripts, and other materials that reflect and document the importance of play in American cultural history in particular.
Values
- Respect
- We treat guests and each other with fairness and respect. We celebrate differences as well as similarities. Our behavior is marked by courtesy, patience, compassion, and tolerance. We serve with honesty and integrity, and we expect trust and loyalty in return.
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