Learn more than just history!
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Are you a teacher whose students are studying North Carolina history?
The museum offers several programs to educate and entertain kids. Our activities make history fun!
The Traveling Trunks program allows teachers and group leaders to get hands-on objects and specially designed lesson plans in their classrooms.
The NEW "Conflict: War and Peace" trunk teaches middle school students about the meaning and impact of war on North Carolina. The trunk activities use maps, games, costumes, music, and lessons to relate North Carolina's experiences in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II.
The "Daily Life" trunk teaches children about everyday life in pre-settlement Native American cultures, Colonial America, Civil War North Carolina, and in the textile mill villages of Hillsborough.
Also ideal for church, after-school, and scout groups. Rent a Traveling Trunk for two weeks at a cost of $25. Trunk can picked up or delivered to you.
Hands-on activities make the OCHM programs exciting and engaging.
Or, bring your class to the museum for the Teaching with Hillsborough's Historic Sites program. This program allows students to become junior curators and geometric artists as they learn about the pre-European Settlement and Colonial periods. The museum's Heritage Education Programs are NC Curriculum-based. To schedule programs, please contact Megan Privett at the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough, (919) 732-7741.
Students develop logic skills while exploring Native American artifacts in our Heritage Education program.
Our activities teach more than history. Students learn math, recycling, and art in a historical context.
Our Summer Camp activities are also popular with kids ages 5 to 12. A Cemetery Scavenger Hunt and other activities teach kids about local history and historic people. These camps are offered all summer and can easily be reserved by calling the museum. This is a program offered to camps, churches, and other organized and supervised groups. This is not a supervised camp. Cost for these programs is $2 per child.
If you are interested in learning about our Traveling Trunks or Summer Camp activities contact the museum at (919) 732-2201 or send an email to the Museum.
Children enjoy our summer camp programs which includes a cemetery scavenger hunt.