Keeler Tavern Museum and History Center (KTHC) is offering a new session of their popular Keeler Kids summer program for boys and girls entering grades 7 and up. The new Session III, called “The Museum Experience”, will be held the week of July 24 through July 28, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily.
The Museum Experience will introduce kids to the behind-the-scenes of a history museum. Through a variety of hands-on activities and field trips, kids will learn how museum collections are built, how objects are conserved, and how exhibitions are designed.
Kids at Session III will become apprentice museum curators and will design their own exhibits using objects from their own collections and/or from KTHC’s museum collection. The week-long session will conclude with an exhibit opening reception for the new junior curators and their parents. The exhibits will remain open to public visitors to KTHC for several weeks.
Session III will also include a full-day fieldtrip on Wednesday, July 26, with a visit to two major institutions in New York City; a gallery visit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a behind-the-scenes tour, including the conservation lab, at the New-York Historical Society.
The cost is $250 per session ($225 with family membership; 10% sibling discount). Registration for all sessions of Keeler Kids is available online at www.keelertavernmuseum.org. For questions or more information, please email info@keelertavernmuseum.org or call 203-438-5485.
Photo Caption: Boys and girls entering grades 7 and up can become junior curators at KTHC this summer, July 24 to 28, during the new Keeler Kids Session III: The Museum Experience. Kids will work with KTHC’s collections, including the pictured Toby Jugs, with Assistant Museum Director Catherine Prescott.