Stewart's Shops Support Adirondack Museum Programs for Schools
February 22, 2010, Blue Mountain Lake, NY — The Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, New York has received a grant in the amount of $3,000 from the Stewart’s Shops in support of museum’s resources for area schools and educators.
The funds will be used to provide scholarship assistance to schools that may financially be unable to visit the Adirondack Museum, and to purchase teaching objects and other supplies for the more than twenty hands-on classes currently offered for students in grades K – 12.
Adirondack Museum resources for schools include: the outreach program – “on-the-road” classes that bring a museum educator, teaching artifacts, historic photographs, and primary documents directly into classrooms around the Adirondack Park and beyond; exhibit-based classes held at the museum; and the traditional self-guided field trip. Museum educators often work with classroom teachers to customize museum experiences to match curricular goals.
The Education Department also maintains the Adirondack History Network, www.adirondackhistory.org . The History Network is an on-line resource that helps teachers and students across New York State in the study of state and local history. The web site includes a searchable database of artifacts, photographs, oral histories, maps, and ephemera from the Adirondack Museum’s collections.
Stewart’s is based in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. and has a long-standing commitment to “giving back” to the community. The company contributes approximately 5% of their profits annually and donated $2,250,000 to regional organizations in 2009. Stewart’s Shops has a special interest in children, their education, and their recreation.
The Adirondack Museum tells the story of the Adirondacks through exhibits, special events, classes for schools, and hands-on activities. Introducing the new exhibit: Let’s Eat! Adirondack Food Traditions. The Adirondack Museum is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. For information about all that the museum has to offer, please call (518) 352-7311, or visit www.adirondackmuseum.org.
