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From the Andes to the Big Apple, Keeping an Indigenous Language Alive: Q&A with the Quechua Collective

With up to about 10 million speakers, Quechua (also known as Runasimi, or “people’s language”) is the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas, and it is an official…
On set filming man in wheelchair for Words Matter gallery video

Words Matter — Gallery Preview!

Words have incredible power. The WORDS MATTER gallery will drive this message home, as visitors see and hear stories from real people about how words and language can transform lives…

The Spoken World — Gallery Preview!

What will you do at Planet Word? In The Spoken World, you’ll dive headfirst into the awe-inspiring diversity of the world’s languages! This gallery brings together spoken and signed languages…

Graphic of boy exiting Poetry Gallery hidden in secret bookcase

At Planet Word, Let Poetry Surround You

Poems can uplift, inspire, challenge, and change us. A poet’s careful use of words can bring us comfort or stir outrage in the face of injustice. In short, a poem…

Ann Friedman standing in front of a construction fence at Planet Word decorated with a large letter A and riddles

Why Make a Museum of Language?

Curious about how Planet Word came to be? Here, Ann talks about what inspired her to bring language to life with this one-of-a-kind museum.