Message-ID: <8FD7B10B5E3E42F485729FE2E43EDF0E@karenPC> From: "Karen Baumgartner" <krbaumga@pctcnet.net> Subject: Re: museum activities for kids? Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:57:42 -0500
Russell,
Historical Societies often have a plethora of manual typewriter
donations. I've heard curators say that the best use for a manual
typewriter is in a children's hands-on exhibit. If you can find the
ribbons, it is a learning experience for how hard they are to operate
(children are amazed) and how accurate their grandparents had to be when
writing a letter (no backspace for quickly correcting). Carbon paper
and typewriter erasers would be for the older student. A small poster
of typewriter history or a photo of a local business office showing a
typewriter would make it educational exhibit.
Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: Russell Hanson
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 8:18 AM
Subject: museum activities for kids?
We managed to get a fulltime summer person to keep our museum open
during the day. The Luck museum shares a new building with the Luck
library and we match their 11-6 hours. We get a spillover of kids
coming into the museum. They are mostly 7-14 age. We would like to
encourage them to come in and need some activities for them to do (that
are not very hard for us to setup!).
Any ideas or things that work for you?
Thanks Russ Hanson Luck Area Historical Society