While there's a chance fans watched it as a child, this time the experts at Penn are asking the adults to join in on the fun!
In this take on the hit show, Legends: Penn Museum Edition, set to take place on Wednesday 20th April 2016 from 6pm to 8pm, staff from the Penn Museum as well as five other Philadelphia-area museums await attendees at stations throughout the galleries and grounds-testing guests with a variety of challenges, from knowledge competitions to scavenger hunts and more, just like in the show. Attendees will join familiar, colorful teams like the Blue Barracudas and the Orange Iguanas, before departing into the Penn Museum's galleries to embark on an adventurous series of activities. Along the way, you'll meet with staff from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, the American Philosophical Society Museum, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science - all on hand to test competitors' physical and mental acumen! Remember, "the choices are yours and yours alone."
Fierce participants will gain points for their team by completing various challenges during an action-packed, 30-minute window of head to head combat competition. To heat things up even more Temple Guards from various cultures will be where you least expect them, waiting to capture you while on your way to victory!
Unlike the actual show, this time its adults only. Guests must be 18 years or older to attend and take part in this once in a lifetime challenge.
The event follows the recent announcement that Nickelodeon will be reviving the show into a TV movie set to be released in November of 2016. The film will star Isabela Moner (100 Things To Do Before High School), Colin Critchley and Jet Jurgensmeyer (Bubble Guppies, Shimmer and Shine), and the shows original host and guide, Kirk Fogg.
Though the series has featured everything from drag performances to magic shows, nothing has rivaled the excitement surrounding April 20's event Kate Quinn, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Penn Museum told CBS News. Quinn sensed the event was poised to go viral when the museum's younger staff members first heard about it. "You could see the stars in their eyes as we began talking about it here," said Quinn. "Since our museum is filled with material connected with what the show did, maybe this was something we could play with," she added, noting that the event will feature "nothing that will harm the objects of course!".
"We've been working for a couple of years now trying to grow our young, professional audience," Kate Quinn, director of exhibitions at Penn Museum, tells EW.
UPDATE: Tickets have now sold out. Though the "Legends" event was quick to sell out, those wishing to participate are invited to add their names to a wait list. And given the enormous response "Legends" has elicited, Quinn and her team are already hard at work planning similar events for the upcoming season.
Tickets are $20 General Admission.
Cash bar. Tickets: $20; $15, Penn Museum members (includes one complimentary beverage). Guests must be 18 years old to attend and 21 to drink.
Full information can be found here on the Penn Museum's official website.
Original source: CBS Philly.
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