

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Spark! Places of Innovation
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am – Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Spark! Places of Innovation, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) program, dives into innovation and invention happening in rural America. In small towns across America, people are creating new products, taking risks, meeting challenges together, and seizing upon exciting opportunities that change local life and sometimes reach far beyond. Spark! features stories from over 30 rural communities across the nation that reveal the dynamic relationship between place and creativity. Technical, social, cultural, artistic, or a combination of all of these—every innovation is as unique as each community. 

Spark! Places of Innovation is part of MoMS, a unique collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Alabama Humanities Alliance, Landmarks of DeKalb County, City of Fort Payne and Fort Payne Main Street.

Explore the ingenuity and tenacity of rural Americans in Spark! Places of Innovation.

Catch the Spark!
February 20, 2026-March 25, 2026
Fort Payne Coal &amp; Iron Building
500 Gault Avenue N.

Monday-Friday 10am-4pm
Evenings &amp; weekends by appointment

For more information contact:
Landmarks of DeKalb County
256/845/6888
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/fort-payne/spark-places-of-innovation/200029840289154
- **Event Categories**: Exhibitions, Meetups, Art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029840289154?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=fort+payne-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Fort Payne
- **state**: AL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 500 Gault Ave N, Fort Payne, AL, United States, Alabama 35967
- **lat**: 34.444630850762
- **long**: -85.719553680261
- **full address**: 500 Gault Ave N, Fort Payne, AL, United States, Alabama 35967

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Landmarks of Dekalb County, Alabama Inc. (https://allevents.in/org/landmarks-of-dekalb-county-alabama-inc/16908642)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 500 Gault Ave N, Fort Payne, AL, United States, Alabama 35967
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Landmarks of Dekalb County, Alabama Inc.
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Exhibitions, Meetups, Art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Spark! Places of Innovation ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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