Fees and Registration Students are transported to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the Museum s authentic one-room schoolhouse, ca. 1784.
Students make their own copy-books for an Early American handwriting exercise.
The traveling artist has just finished his portrait of a distinguished family. Fees and Registration Students gain a better understanding of West African culture by observing the art and artifacts produced by the Yoruba, Asante and Kuba peoples. To approximate some traditional experiences, students try on clothes and try out musical instruments. As part of the gallery experience, there will be a workshop where students create a bracelet using African textiles and cowry shells. Fees and Registration Students explore the secrets of mummification and the art of hieroglyphics in ancient Egypt, or they may head straight for ancient Greece and Rome to try on a Greek tunic and experience life as it was lived in the Classical Age.