I just wanted to recap something our speaker, Melissa, brought up in class on Tuesday. I know you all discussed museum mission statements. I wanted to point out the "mission statement" for the Yager Museum, which I've put on our blog. Notice the word education anywhere? What about the word exhibit? Remember that exhibitions are a tool in museum education, not what a museum is all about. Also, as you take a look at the Yager Museum website, and notice that museum education isn't really represented as a topic area. I wonder if this needs to change?
PUBLIC PROGRAM UPDATE
Saturday April 19th, 2008
11am to 4pm
Goals:
1) Create a powerful personal experience
2) Involve the College Community (focus on first year students) in the Yager Museum and attract them to the Containers of Belief exhibit
a) Highlight collections objects to help inspire bead activity
b) Make connection between Containers of Belief and Frisbee Field activity (boiling syrup)
Theme:
Spring
Yager Fest
Program:
Yager Museum-
Beaded necklaces
Refreshments- maple syrup inspired (maple candies, syrup, maple tea, which is good iced and warm)
Possibly invite the Otsego County Maple Producers for syrup sampling
Frisbee Field-
Camp Fire
Maple Syrup making (sap boiling)
Music/Drumming
Flint napping
Nature hike
Both Locations-
Scavenger Hunt
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i think that is a good summary of what we all pretty much agree on. What is this scavenger hunt though??? is that really age appropriate?? i always think they are kind of silly. but maybe that's just me.
I agree with Peg, I think that the scavenger hunt might just be a little too much to do on the day of our program. I think it would be better if we focused more on the other activities, I also think more students would be willing to do the nature hike over the scavenger hunt. But overall I like the outline.
We will remove the scavenger hunt from the mix.
Looks good. It seems as though even if the weather does not cooperate, there will still be activites we could do.
I do have a question about the music/drumming part because it could be presented in so many different ways--Is it background noise, some type of production, a presentation, an interactive to create music, or an interactive to build drums?
Hi everyone,
I like that you are narrowing this down to a nice focus... For the day long event, this looks workable!
The next thing for us right now to know is: Which of the following activities would you want Hawk Circle to do/run, and do you want them to be interactive demonstrations, or actual hands on workshops?
I am thinking that Hawk Circle could provide the maple demonstration, which I would coordinate with Barry Keegan, and he would also do some flint tool making demonstrations after the maple demos.
If we tried to do more than that, say, doing a flint tools/arrowhead workshop, would you want to make that something that students signed up for in advance, and then went inside to the museum to look at what you have on display, then go back outside to make their own points/tools?
Also, we could do firemaking demonstrations, string and ropemaking demos/hands on stuff, and coal burning demos/hands on stuff by the fire.
Doing the maple syrup stuff does involve heating up rocks, a lot of set up and it could be pretty cool.
You can see what Barry does at the Farmer's Museum every Sunday morning in March, so you can go there and check that out if you get a chance and also get breakfast, too.
The beading is something that we can do, or we can have you all do it, or we can train you to do it for me as well. So, you all can talk about it, and get back to us about it.
The scavenger hunt was something I thought of just to be something that you could lead, that would be inside, and get people going to different exhibits and really looking at them in detail, but you do need prizes to make it worth the effort, and it takes a lot of creativity too, to think of good questions. I think it is good to set that idea aside, too, because it could just be too much, which is what you all are saying. I agree!
Anyway, let me know what kind of things you actually want Hawk Circle to do, and we will get you an idea of the cost. I will also bring this to my staff tomorrow and talk about it, because up until this point, we were narrowing things all down so it wasn't so ambiguous.....
Hope this helps!
Ricardo
a big yes for making string... cos i know i liked it lots. i'm glad the idea didn't fall by the wayside!
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