For the past four years, the towering figure of a friendly turtle has been posted up inside the First Americans Museum , patiently keeping watch as a storybook forest was growing up beyond the closed doors she was guarding.

"Grandma Turtle has been out here for all these years. ... And we just kept saying, 'Coming soon,'" said Shoshana Wasserman , deputy director of the First Americans Museum , or FAM.

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