Source: The Richmond Times-Dispatch
RICHMOND, USA, December 10, 2002: Seven-year-old Alana Amrose stood entranced, looking at the fruits, animals, faces, symbols and writing of the Hindu calendar — a Nakara Chaturdasi. She glowed with excitement at the Children’s Museum of Richmond’s “Our Community, One World in Celebration” exhibit featuring six miniature houses decorated with symbols of holidays observed around the end or beginning of the year. The girl’s first stop last week was the Deepavali display. Alana Amrose also breezed through the Ramadan and the Chinese Lunar New Year exhibits to the display for Hanukkah. Amrose said the exhibition provided educational entertainment for parents and children. “I think it is a good way of exposing people to different cultures, all at once, in a small space without a lot of navigation,” she said. “The exhibitions are in little houses, and kids love little houses.”