Last updated: 1/10/2011
649 Cheatham Hill Drive
Marietta, GA 30064
P.O. Box 78
Marietta, GA 30061
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Anita S. Barton
phone: 770-427-2563
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Lisa Schneiderman
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Unique among participatory museums, The Youth Museum uses role-playing to involve children in the learning experience.
Two guided tours are conducted each school day for elementary and middle school classes. During the two guided tours, docents dressed in period costumes lead the tours, involving the children in self-expression through role-playing and lively discussion. Children move through numerous settings and exhibit areas in the museum, participating in an unfolding narrative of selected historic and cultural interest. Children are chosen to dress in authentic costumes and act out a brief skit at each setting along the tour, bringing history alive in story fashion, much to the delight of their classmates.
The Youth Museum is a non-profit educational resource center offering children the opportunity to learn about significant historical, social, and cultural events through instructional activities which integrate arts and education while emphasizing personal involvement and participation.
The Cobb County Youth Museum was chartered in 1964 and originally provided suitcase exhibits to enhance the curriculum of the city and county schools. At present, approximately 15,000 students, teachers, and other adults come through the museum annually. This is a 501(c)(3) organization, a tax-exempt non-profit educational institution and resource center. It offers children the opportunity to learn about significant historical, social, and cultural events through instructional activities which integrate arts and education while emphasizing personal involvement and participation.
Built in 1970 in Marietta, Georgia, The Youth Museum is located adjacent to the Cheatham Hill Area of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. Visitors enter the ten acre grounds at the Cheatham Hill Battlefield entrance, three miles west of the Marietta square on Highway 120 (Dallas Highway).
Exhibits designed and created by staff and volunteers that relate to the elementary school curriculun.
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