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Activity: Curating a Classroom Museum

Create a classroom museum about American history and culture.

View of eight quilts displayed in a museum gallery with a spinning wheel placed in the center of the room.

Object Story: Stitching Statements and Sentiments

Explore quilt patterns that reflect women’s perspectives on the world and current events.

Print on paper showing arrangement of squares; within each square there are strips of colored rectangles that are arranged asymmetrically in shades of red, blue, white, and black.

Object Story: African American Quilting

Contemporary African American quilt traditions and their transformation into new artforms.

Front view of ovoid jar with handles near the top, decorated with blue pigment and incised decorations, with a flower in a checkered pot at the center and the initials “IS” below.

Object Story: Jar

Stoneware jar with unique decorations.

Painted tin document box mounted with original brass handle; decorated with red, white and yellow on three sides and the top; typical of the workshop of Elijah and Elisha North.

Object Story: Decorated Document Box

Decorated tin document box; decorated with red, white and yellow typical of the workshop of Elijah and Elisha North of Stevens Plains (now Westbrook), Maine 1806-1840.

Identity on Display

Among the many unique traits we have as humans is our ability create, learn, and share different ways of knowing our world.

The text Barrel Cactus inside a white circle with a green outline

Barrel Cactus

Vocabulary

The text Bonsai inside a white circle with a green outline.

Bonsai

Vocabulary

The text Cycad inside a white circle outlined in green.

Cycad

Vocabulary

The text Rose inside a white circle outlined in green.

Rose

Vocabulary