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The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop functions more like a busy factory than a conventional museum: teams of high-school aged apprentices prepare the kits we use for teaching school groups, an 8 year old's birthday party assembles X-Wing Fighters, and grandparents and grandchildren put together toy trains. In this way, we collect, interpret, and preserve the experiments that are the roots of design and invention. But it is not a quiet, contemplative, "museum" atmosphere.
However, there are things to see and do for visitors who aren't traveling with children. The Museum is located on the banks of the Mill River, where Eli Whitney sparked the industrial revolution in America, and his lasting imprint is visible on our historic site.