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Museum Scout Programs
Victoria
Era Days
2
hours
Maximum attendees: 60 per session
Appropriate for Brownie through Cadette Scouts
$5 per scout, no charge for 1 chaperone per 5 girls
Explore the Victorian Era through hands on activities, primary source documents and artifacts from the Wistariahurst Museum collection. Scouts will have the opportunity to explore Victorian Era past-times including needlepoint and parlor games, Victorian dining and etiquette, Victorian clothing, education in the Victorian Era, writing with a dip pen, the roll of calling cards and more. Visitors travel in groups of up to ten in six, twenty-minute segments.
Badge Programs for Junior Girl Scouts
Architecture
2.5 hours
$5 per scout, no charge for 1 chaperone per 5 girls
Maximum attendees: 25 per sessionWistariahurst Museum evolved to its current state over two generations of the Skinner family. Overtime the architecture was influenced by many new ideas and one can see evidence of many architectural styles. Girls will tour the house looking for architectural details and create a notebook filled with their favorite architectural ideas. Then they will work with the original blueprints to see how architects design homes. Each girl will create a blueprint, design a garden and assist in a restoration project at Wistariahurst.
"Collecting" Hobbies
2.5 hours
$5 per scout, no charge for 1 chaperone per 5 girls
Maximum attendees: 25 per sessionMuseums are all homes to collections and the primary function of museums is collecting, caring for, and displaying objects. Come learn how you can learn to manage your collection while you learn how Wistariahurst Museum manages their collection. Tour will include a behind the scenes trip to the archives and other areas where girls can learn about how the museum manages its collections. Girls will learn about building a collection, ways to share and display collections, how to research the items in their collection so that they are more knowledgeable collectors, and how to organize their collection. They will also learn how we learn about history from the collections left to us by the Skinner family. Scouts are required to bring a collection to use as the basis of the project. Students will complete all activities to earn the badge with the exception of a Hobby Fair they need to organize to 'show off' their collections to others.
Badge Programs for Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts
Collecting
3 hours
$6 per scout, no charge for 1 chaperone per 5 girls
Maximum attendees: 25 per sessionMuseums are all homes to collections and the primary function of museums is collecting, caring for, and displaying objects. Come learn how you can learn to manage your collection while you learn how Wistariahurst Museum manages their collection. Tour will include a behind the scenes trip to the archives and other areas where girls can learn about how the museum manages its collections. Girls will learn about building a collection (SK#1), ways to share and display collections (SB#2), how to research the items in their collection so that they are more knowledgeable collectors (SB#3), and how to store and preserve collections properly (T#1). Girls will work to assist archivist in maintaining the Wistariahurst collection (SP#4). Finally scouts will interview the curator/archivist and learn about the work she does (C1). Scouts are required to bring a collection to use as the basis of the project.
Women Through Time
5 hours
$10 per scout, no charge for 1 chaperone per 5 girls
Maximum attendees: 25 per sessionWistariahurst Museum was home to seven women over the course of three generations of the Skinner family and provides the perfect backdrop for exploring the changing roles of women through history. Girls will learn how to conduct an oral history (SB#2), read excerpts from the journal of Belle Skinner as well as Mill worker Ann Ross (SB# 5), discover conditions facing women of different classes during the late 1800's and early 1900's (SB#6), learn a traditional domestic art that has been replaced by technology (T#4), design a docent tour that shows the shifting role of women (SP#2) create a hands on activity for museum visitors (SP#3), and interview our archivist (CE#3).
Museum Discovery
5 hours
$10 per scout, no charge for chaperones
Maximum attendees: 25 per sessionScouts are invited to visit museum for a traditional tour and then do a "behind the scenes" tour including the non-interpreted space and archives (SB#1). They will then draw a blueprint of the behind the scenes tour to share with others. (SB#5) Scouts will then explore the ways the museum cares for its objects (T3) and preserves documents (T#5). Girls will then either plan to facilitate visit for younger scouts (SP#1) or help to develop a youth museum organization (SP#2). We will discuss the careers available in museums and the various training required for them. (CE#1)