Planet Word

Planet Word is a language arts museum scheduled to open in Washington, D.C., in Spring 2020.[1]

The new museum is being created by Ann B. Friedman, a philanthropist and former reading teacher who is married to New York Times opinion columnist Tom Friedman.[2] It will occupy the historic Franklin School building, designed by Adolf Cluss, and located on Franklin Square at 13th and K Street.[3]

Speaking Willow, an interactive, motion-detecting tree created by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will whisper to visitors in hundreds of different languages.[4]

References

"Planet Word Museum". PlanetWord. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
"Attention, Word-Nerds: A Museum of Linguistics Is Coming to D.C." CityLab.
O'Connell, Jonathan (25 January 2017). "Philanthropist Ann Friedman picked to turn D.C.'s Franklin School into 'Planet Word.'". Washington Post. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
Dingfelder, Sadie (13 March 2019). "A giant, whispering 'tree' is coming to downtown D.C." Washington Post. Retrieved 14 March 2019.

External links

Official website

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[1] "Planet Word Museum". PlanetWord. Retrieved 2019-05-28.

[2] "Attention, Word-Nerds: A Museum of Linguistics Is Coming to D.C." CityLab.

[OConnellWord-3] O'Connell, Jonathan (25 January 2017). "Philanthropist Ann Friedman picked to turn D.C.'s Franklin School into 'Planet Word.'". Washington Post. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

[DingfelderTree-4] Dingfelder, Sadie (13 March 2019). "A giant, whispering 'tree' is coming to downtown D.C." Washington Post. Retrieved 14 March 2019.