The History Museum on the Square in Springfield offers several education components. One is its Traveling Exploration Trunks program, which offers hands-on learning about the area's history. And now those trunks will be more accessible to anyone who would like to check them out.
Groups can now rent an Exploration Trunk for 3-5 days at no cost. Prior to this, renting one of the trunks cost $60 for three days and $20 for each additional day.
The program lets classrooms, community organization and homeschool families borrow a collection of reproduction items, primary sources and other educational materials organized around a theme, such as “Early Native Americans” or “The Civil War in Springfield.”
The trunks' contents include things like clothing, household items, tools, animal pelts and toys and are designed for hands-on learning about the local community's history.
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