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MERCER MUSEUM OPENS NEW WING

Presented by Mercer Museum at Mercer Museum

June 18, 2011

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Just in time for summer, the Mercer Museum  will open its new 13,000-square-foot wing to the public. The green building is the first of its kind in Doylestown. the new wing of the Mercer Museum provides a 3,500-square-foot state-of-the-art changing exhibition gallery, education space and resources in the new 1,000-square-foot Learning Center and superior visitor amenities including ADA upgrades, improved parking facilities and visitor services. It includes many environmentally-friendly and energy-saving components – from its green roof, water-conserving bathroom fixtures and radiant heat concrete flooring slabs to the recycled-content wall panels in the new exhibit gallery.   Festivities will include a ribbon-cutting,  live music including a drum/percussion performance by Drummers with Attitude, a “Rollo and Friends” puppet show, craft demonstrations, a Henry Mercer character and much more.

* Welcome and Ribbon-cutting in the Great Hall, 10:15 am
* “Henry is in the House” - meet Henry Mercer in the Great Hall, immediately following the ribbon cutting
*“Rollo and Friends: A Mercer Puppet Show.” Performances at 11am and 2pm in the Learning Center
* “A is for Archaeology” Craft Activity, 12noon-1:30pm in the Learning Center
* Craft Demonstration in the Gallery, Bucks County Embroidery Guild, 1pm-4 pm
* Make a Print at the Mercer “Expeditions” Hands-on Cart, 2pm-4pm
* African Rhythms/Percussion Performance by Nashid Ali, Mercer Central Court, 12:30pm & 1:30pm
* Clifford Cole & LA Williams, “Traditional Celtic Dance Music - Hammered Dulcimer and Fiddle, 2:30pm & 3:30pm