When the Providence Children’s Museum moved from their original location in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to the big city, they fortuitously acquired a dragon who was in need of a home. The year was 1997. Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts was closing an exhibit on Chinese paintings, and a beautiful dragon head that had been constructed for the exhibit would no longer be needed. With the dragon facing homelessness—or worse—the Children’s Museum of Providence welcomed the dragon in to grace their new building. Two years later the museum had a contest…
