It's the kids TV show that has defined generations, and a question that's been asked for the past 5 decades, "Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?"

That question first popping into the pop culture lexicon, Monday, November 10th, 1969 when the ground breaking children's program debuted.

Much has happened over the past 50 years on the show, but it all started with the idea to utilize the television medium to educate children, explained Jill Nash-Mahool Director of the Henson Exhibit at the Center of Puppetry Arts, "[The show's creators] thought, could we funnel that into an educational source? Funnel they did, and it has been so wildly successful."

Nash-Mahool said the show's creators also had the exact person in mind to help them with this endeavor -- puppeteer Jim Henson.

"When they were creating 'Sesame Street', they really wanted Jim Henson. They were like, if we can't have Jim Henson, then we won't have puppets,” Nash-Mahool explained, adding, “And its really amazing to think what Sesame Street might have been like if they didn't have puppets. I don't know if we'd be celebrating the 50th anniversary.”

The show has covered a lot from learning colors, numbers and letters to dealing with addiction, mental health, autism, and emotional issues like death.

“They've dealt with all kinds of terrible issues [over the years],” Nash-Mahool said. “We have a photo of Mr. Hooper [a human character on Sesame Street] in our refreshed space, and when he died early on, on the show, they were going to tackle that and so they talked to kids in a very real way about what that meant.”

And if you want to get in on the action of celebrating 50 years of Sesame Street you can head to the Center for Puppetry Arts -- who has the bulk of Henson's personal collections of puppets -- will be having a big after hours event Saturday night starting at 6 p.m. ET.

“We're going to have the museum open, people can come and see or refreshed Sesame Street exhibition that is here in our galleries, and then they will also get a chance for a meet and greet with Elmo,” according to Nash-Mahool.

She added, “The human sized Elmo is going to come and take his photo with families and the folks from Sesame Street Live are going to come and perform a very short number.”

Then on Sunday, the actual 50th birthday of the show there will be special events -- “We'll be making special Sesame Street masks. We're going to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to Sesame Street and the end of the day and have cake for everybody,” Nash-Mahool told WSBRadio, adding, “We'll also have people on hand to answer questions and talk about Sesame Street and really just have a joy filled day to celebrate this wonderful show that has touched so many lives.”

As far as who is on display at the refreshed Henson Exhibit, Nash-Mahool said, "Elmo is back and he's definitely somebody worth seeing. We have Cookie Monster in the exhibit, along with Bert and Ernie and Big Bird."

But there's more -- “We also have some more obscure characters that maybe you haven't seen before are in our Creature Shop,” Nash-Mahool said, adding, “We've got Brad, who is Bert's little nephew, and we've got Sherlock Hemlock, who was a favorite character of mine, based on Sherlock Holmes.

“Roosevelt Franklin and We've got Clementine, and Fred the Wonder Horse.”

So, this weekend will be brought to you by the letter ‘C’, for Celebration, ‘S’, for sesame street, and the number 50.