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…
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…
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.
What’s Planet Word up to in 2019? Read up on the rehabilitation of the Franklin School, our exhibit design process, and what to expect in the year ahead.
We have countless machine translation options at our fingertips at any given moment, but many of these comically fail to capture nuance and cultural context. By bringing live, human translators…
Long Way Down—Jason Reynolds’s bestselling novel in verse—makes its way to the Kennedy Center. Reynolds, a member of Planet Word’s Advisory Board, talked to us about empathy, the theatrical adaptation…