Some dreams come true in ways we never dreamed. Leslie took the form of a life’s journey involving two different countries, hundreds of children and innumerable detours. Today, more than thirty years after setting her sites on the creation of a children’s museum for French-speaking Switzerland, her once forgotten dream has re-emerged as a unique piece of Art.
Back in the mid 1980’s, while living in Switzerland, Leslie researched and wrote a feasibility study championing the creation of one such children’s museum. Although her final year “en Suisse, included co-sponsorship of this study by the Jeune Chambre Economique de Lausanne, along with presentations to various Swiss politicians and heads of Industry, she had to leave it all behind due to her husband’s transfer by Nestle back to the States.
Now that she's an artist, a retired teacher, and former new products developer, she can design and build whatever she wants in her own studio. Here then is that long ago dream come to life in Lucite…Leslie’s Exploratorium.
Imagine a see-through table-top museum where playing and learning are combined…where kids are urged to feel, try on, smell push, pull, stroke and explore in the pursuit of their own creativity. Here, there are no limits, outside of the boundaries of ones own imagination.
Almost everything you’ll see was created by kids…either by her own sons as boys who experienced unique opportunities to live in and explore different countries and cultures, or by children she once taught at school.
Leslie Margolis
June 1, 2014
