Museum of Rockies launches new online resources
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MONTANA — In light of closures across the state due to the novel coronavirus, Montana State University’s Museum of the Rockies has launched a new, free online learning resource for community members.
The online library of resources comprises lessons, curriculum guides, games and videos intended for school-aged children, families, museum members, caregivers and the community to help stay engaged with the collections, exhibits and programs the museum has to offer. The resources are contributed by every department in the museum and will be updated weekly. To access the online resources, visit museumoftherockies.org/learn. Highlights from the resource library include:
-More than 30 videos where audiences can learn from the museum’s educators, curators, staff, research associates and program partners, as well as go behind the scenes for special programs in the collections.
-Fourteen lesson and activity guides that offer original content, including “Our Home, Our World: Discovering Earth and Space Science in Kumamoto and Montana,” an educator’s guide created with museum partners in Montana and Japan.
-More than 50 audio recordings of evening lectures from the museum and its program partners, sponsored by Gallatin Valley Community Radio.
-Access to digital collections from the museum, including its photo archive and the new Marlene Saccoccia Quilt Heritage Project with the Montana Memory Project.
-An archive of the museum’s social media posts from 2020 with educational information about its collections and exhibitions.
The following message is posted on the museum’s website, “Museum of the Rockies supports all educators, caregivers, children and adults in Montana and around the world in distance learning in this unprecedented time.”
Museum of the Rockies (MOR) is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit institution, a college-level division of Montana State University, a Smithsonian Affiliate, and a repository for state and federal fossils. MOR is recognized as one of the world’s finest research and history museums. It is renowned for displaying an extensive collection of dinosaur fossils, including the mounted Montana’s T. rex skeleton.
