This family friendly program features special educator-led readings of children's history books and a craft activity. Stories at the Museum programs are open to all ages. Programs take place every month on select Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.
Every Stories at the Museum program will include:
group reading of the selected history-themed picture book
a make-it-and-take-it craft activity related to the text
Each month the books will have a different theme.
January 5 – I Took a Walk
January 19 – A Sweet Smell of Roses
February 2 – Ruby Bridges
February 16 – Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe
March 2 – Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
March 16 – Jazz Age Josephine
April 6 – The Raven
April 20 – Johnny Appleseed
May 4 – How My Parents Learned to Eat
May 18 – It's Challah Time!
June 1 – And Tango Makes Three
June 15 – Nim and the War Effort
July 6th - Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything
July 20th - Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie
Aug 3rd - Worst of Friends
Aug 17th - Around America to Win the Vote
Sept 7th - Waiting for the Biblioburro
Sept 21st - My Name is Celia Cruz
Oct. 5th - Ish
Oct 19th - The Street Beneath My Feet
Nov 2nd - The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
Nov 16th - Thanksgiving Book TBD
Dec 7th - Gingerbread for Liberty
Dec 21st - Snowflake Bentley
2020 Dates and Themes
Jan 4th - I Took a Walk
Jan 18th - A Sweet Smell of Roses
Feb 1st - Ella Fitzgerald
Feb 15th - Milo’s Museum
March 7th - You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer
March 21st - Fearless: The Story of Racing Legend Louise Smith
April 4th - Johnny Appleseed
April 18th - Visiting Langston
May 2nd - The Lotus Seed
May 16th - My Museum
June 6th - And Tango Makes Three
June 20th - We Came to America
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