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June 2009: Encouraging Family Learning in History Museums

The USS Constitution Museum in Boston is opening a new exhibit, “All Hands on Deck: A Sailor’s Life in 1812” to bring to life a sailor's
day-to-day existence aboard the world’s oldest commissioned seafaring vessel. Using grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the museum spent more than three years studying what engages school-age visitors and their parents. A Web site allows other museums to adapt the USS Constitution Museum’s experience to their needs. Read more.

 A family rests in the hammock together, where a sailor in 1812 would have only been able to sleep for 4 hours at a time. Photo by Greg Cooper, courtesy of the USS Constitution Museum.
May 2009 | Stuart-Hobson Middle School Discovers and Saves Archival Treasures
Anne-Imelda Radice,IMLS Director, with students from the Stuart-Hobson Middle School.   For decades, irreplaceable PTA scrapbooks, historical school photos, and roll books dating from 1926 to 1967 languished in a little-used room of Capitol Hill’s Stuart-Hobson Middle School. Read more
April 2009 | Interns Help Restore Sacred Hawaiian Cloaks
Aimee Ducey, conservation program intern from New York University, removing accretion from the sacred Hawaiian cloak.   The Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, will exhibit three newly-repaired 'ahu 'ula, sacred feather cloaks worn by male members of the Hawaiian ali’i, or chiefs, when it reopens the renovated Hawaiian Hall in August. Read more
March 2009 | KC Science, INC - Inspiring Natural Curiosity In Science
Student participating in a hands-on KC Science, INC activity   Several years ago, Kansas City leaders decided to boost future economic growth by developing science and engineering skills in the area’s work force. There was a problem though: Kansas City’s workers and students weren’t very interested in science and engineering. Read more
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