Beyond the Exhibit
The World Awareness Children’s Museum (WACM) is thrilled to announce that they will be partnering with The Hyde Collection for this year’s “Beyond the Exhibit” summer series. Now in its third year, “Beyond the Exhibit” expands the museum’s mission to teach children about different cultures around the world through engaging, family-friendly cultural performances. This year, three performances will take place at The Hyde Collection on select dates in July after a successful two-year stint at the Charles R. Wood Theater in downtown Glens Falls.
Our list of 2026 programs are as follows:
Friday, July 10: Place by Heard World Jazz | 10:30 – 11:30AM
“Place” takes the original music of Heard and brings the audience somewhere special and distinct in each piece – like the crowded bustle of an Accra open-air market (Market Song), a winding wintry boulevard in Montreal (Cotes des Neiges) or the summer streets of Brazil (Danca Verao). Through narrative storytelling around compositional inspirations, the audience will explore cultural, geographical, and environmental dimensions of other countries and places.
Tickets: $8 per person | WACM & Hyde Members: $6 per person
Friday, July 17: The Way Home: A Choose-Your-Own Musical Adventure by PigPen
Theatre Co. | 10:30 – 11:30AM
Join PigPen Theatre Co. (writers of Broadway’s Water for Elephants) for an immersive, interactive musical adventure where the audience helps shape what happens next. Blending international and Americana folk traditions with shadow puppetry, live music, and imaginative storytelling, this “choose your own adventure” performance invites audiences of all ages to become part of the story, working together to guide a brave folk hero on their journey home.
Tickets: $8 per person | WACM & Hyde Members: $6 per person
Friday, July 31: Caravan to Cairo by Mosaic Dance Theater Company | 10:30 – 11:30AM
Caravan to Cairo is a delightful dance journey, travelling through the lands of North Africa and the Middle East. Its rich cargo of dance is filled with a diversity of engaging dance styles, musical rhythms, lavish colorful costumes, and a charming story-theater adaptation of a folktale from the Near East. A short interactive dance lesson adds to the fun. Be sure to join the Caravan!
Tickets: $8 per person | WACM & Hyde Members: $6 per person
