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Thank you to
our Spring 2013
Dollhouse Raffle
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 Thanks for helping us win Best Place to View Miniatures!
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Museum Store Featured Item:
Miniature Books
 All of our miniature books are perfect 1/12-scale miniatures. Each book features printed pages throughout, a thick cover and a colorful dust jacket to protect the cover. Dozens of classic titles to choose from, including Catcher in the Rye and Charlotte's Web!$8.00/$7.20 for members
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The Book of Fun
 2 for 1 offers to Tucson's Best Attractions (including TMTM) for only $18. Get yours here or buy online. | |
Not Just for Kids will continue in 2013!
Every Thursday, adults will get in for the youth admission price of only $6 through the end of the year!
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The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures / April '13
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Before summer is upon us, let's celebrate the last of spring! Our 4th annual May Day Celebration will take place on Saturday, April 27th. This is sure to be our best event yet- with even more craft projects for children, live music, food trucks, face painting, a scavenger hunt with prizes and more! Dress as a fairy, goblin or elf and receive $1 off admission.
Summer Camps are already filling up. Be sure to check out this year's programs, including our new daily afternoon program, clubHOUSE!
Speaking of summer- create a thirty second commercial for The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures and you could win an iPad Mini and the possibility of seeing your video in our summer advertising campaign. Submissions are due by 10pm on May 17, 2013. Details below!
header image: Forget Us Not Fairy Castle, Ron and April Gill, 1998
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Send a Kid to clubHOUSE! 
clubHOUSE is a daily, afternoon program where kids make miniature arts and crafts, play games and practice yoga and gymnastics! Activities change daily with the week's theme. The Mini Time Machine has committed to reserving funds to offer financial aid to qualified families. Help us provide this magical experience for even more youth in our community!
Send a kid for an afternoon ($20 donation)  Send a kid for a week ($100 donation)
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Kids Create
Kids Create Family Fun Program is designed to help youth learn about, talk about and create miniatures. This program takes place the 2nd Saturday of every month from 1pm-4pm at the museum.
Saturday, April 13 1pm-4pm: Make a Tiny Gumball Machine. Included with museum admission. Click here for the complete Kids Create Schedule of projects
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Minis Magnified
Minis Magnified is a monthly in-depth look at one of the miniatures or an artisan featured in our collection written by our very own Museum Services Manager, Emily Wolverton. This month, we will look at the work of silversmith Peter Acquisto.
"One certainly doesn't need to be a miniaturist to appreciate Peter Acquisto: the fine silver pieces which he creates are testaments to patience, dexterity and expertise." Click here to read this article
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How To
The Mini Time Machine's How To projects are created by Associate Director and Director of Education, Lisa Hastreiter-Lamb. Each project is designed for the beginning miniature maker with easy to find materials.
This month's project: How to Make a Mini Porch Swing. Click here for the instructions for this project and past projects
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TMTM Presents: Touch and Learn with Museum Art Carts
It may be impossible to actually step into our miniature rooms, but now you can rearrange the furniture while exploring a miniature presented on our new Art Carts
Click here for a schedule of Art Cart availability.
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Wish List
The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization. Your support is vital to our mission of preserving and promoting the art of miniatures and allows us to continue to offer educational programs to the community. We are in need of the following items. If you have an item to donate, please call 520-881-0606 or email info@theminitimemachine.org
- Folding tables
- Electric hand-sander
- Gift Cards to Michaels, JoAnn's or Hobby Lobby
- An oversized wheelchair
- Items for our new special event dress-up station for children. Including, large trunks, period costumes, fairy wings, tutus, halos, cloaks, hats, gloves, capes, mustaches or beards
- Black or white tablecloths for six-foot banquet tables
- Tumbling mats like these for Summer Camp
Thank you to: Joan Gentry for donating plastic storage boxes and Tom and Melanie Ralph for donating a carved wood easel.
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