This stage houses the pedagogical platform that the Department of American Studies is using to teach web-based courses that involve students in primary research projects focusing on historic Greenbelt, Maryland. The second stage will provide a virtual Greenbelt Museum. There are no display cases. Instead, the house has been restored with furniture and objects of the simple life which characterized the Great Depression and the New Deal. Much of the furniture and artifacts in the collection were bought, used, and have now been donated to the Museum by Greenbelt citizens.
Permanent exhibits are of historic and artistic interest.
Temporary exhibits focus on specialized aspects of life during that time. For more information on the actual museum please visit the Museum Website maintained by the City of Greenbelt. Additional information on membership , hours , and directions to the museum is also available. Although the primary purpose of these projects was to provide employment during the Great Depression, the green towns were innovative planned communities, designed to provide low-income families with economical housing in a pleasant, healthy surrounding. Groundbreaking was in October 1935 and the first residents arrived two years later.