The Please Touch Museum encourages kids to put their hands on stuff. The Please Take Museum, still in a state of chrysalis, operates on the same principle. The Creative Artists Resource Project (CARP), a nonprofit network of artists who salvage reusable materials, has joined with the Dumpster Divers - who share tips on the how-tos of trash-picking - to create a materials exchange program for artists. So: Artist has wood. Artist needs wire. Artist goes to Please Take Museum and exchanges wood for wire. The museum, at 340 N. 12th St., is now open to members, but CARP director Cdavid Hall-Cottrill (above and no, that's not a typo) says it will soon open to the public one day a week. Call 215-739-2583 if you need or have wire, copper tubing, player piano rolls, old neon signs . . .
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