Allentown, PA ~ NEW Online learning with the Museum of Indian Culture: now offering virtual educational programs, lectures, internships, and hands-on activities to complete from the safety of your own learning environment! 

Due to the changing landscape of education since the pandemic, the Museum of Indian Culture in Allentown, Pennsylvania has recognized the quickly growing need for offering virtual educational programming on Native American history and cultures to assist institutions in supplementing their curriculums.  We are excited to announce that the museum now has a variety of supplemental educational offerings for virtual formats.

The museum has always offered a diverse range of in person and hands-on educational programming on a variety of topics related to Native American history and cultures, such as: Northeastern Woodland history, Native American tools and lifeways, and storytelling. We are happy to announce that we will now be able to offer adaptations of most of our original programs for online learning environments, in a live-stream virtual classroom format. Please contact the museum for pricing and more details.

In addition to our educational programs, the museum can also offer lectures and guest speakers for adults and college level learners in virtual formats. Museum staff and Indigenous speakers can be available upon request for guest speaker events on a variety of topics, including but not limited to: Lenape history and cultures today; museum studies and public history; local PA history and treaties; basics of public policy and Native Americans (federal recognition, sovereignty, NAGPRA, etc.); and Native American Literature. Please contact the museum for pricing and more details, and send us an inquiry if there is another topic you would be interested in finding a speaker for, and we will try our best to accommodate your request.

The museum has also created an online page for our Turtle Island Gift Shop on our website, where we are selling our educational Native American craft kits. These kits are supplementary educational tools allowing families to provide their children with hands-on activities to engage in learning about Native American cultures from the safety of their own homes. Currently, we have kits on making corn husk dolls; gourd rattles; sand art; and dreamcatchers. Each kit includes all of the materials you will need to complete the craft, instructions and demonstration pictures, and an educational story to teach you about the history and cultural significance of each craft. Please visit our website for pricing.

For the spring semester, the museum is also planning to offer academic internships in both virtual and in person formats. If interested, please email our internship coordinator at: kl@museumofindianculture.org with a resume and statement of your interests to apply.

Please see our website for more information on all of our educational offerings. We hope our new virtual adaptations will enable our community to more easily engage with Native American education despite the challenges of the pandemic.

Information provided to TVL by:
Pat Rivera, Executive Director
Museum of Indian Culture
2825 Fish Hatchery Road
Allentown, PA 18103

 

 

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