In 2023, we announced a much-anticipated update to the museum’s main exhibition on the Underground Railroad. Working with an advisory committee, the museum’s staff are updating exhibition signage and adding new features to engage audiences of all ages. The first step in updating the exhibit was taking the last one down! The second step was painting. Thank you to our volunteers for helping with both tasks! The new exhibit will open on May 25. We’ll continue to post updates as the installation happens over the next few months. #museumexhibition #undergroundrailroad #history #historylovers #volunteers
Family Group will meet consecutive Saturdays March 9, 16, 23, 30 from 10:00–11:00 am at Rokeby Museum.
Rokeby Museum’s Racial Learning Family Group is designed for children ages 3–5 with one accompanying parent/caregiver. Adapted from our in-classroom preschool program, it offers families a supportive environment to explore the diversity of the human experience while strengthening empathy skills.
Our society does not equip parents to talk to their young children about difficult social topics like racial bias, social class, and other types of inequity. Nonetheless, children observe an unfair world and are curious to learn why. Through age-appropriate books, conversation, and hands-on activities, we will explore the science of skin color, race as a social construct, the wrongfulness of racism, and other kinds of prejudice and learn the stories of activists who have taken action toward change.
Learn more and register here: https://rokeby.org/visit/programsevents/
Registration is open for our Feburary Lecture with Atlantic Black Box - The Movement Twards Historical Recovery: Researching & Reckoning with New England`s Role in Colonization & Slavery. Learn more and register - https://rokeby.org/visit/programsevents/ #altanticblackbox #blackhistorymonth #historytalks
We are working with @dadguild to present a discussion of Racial Learning with Young Children.
Children notice differences in skin color from three months onward. By three years, they start making observations, asking questions, and forming conclusions about race on factors such as worth and importance. To effect change and help dismantle systemic racism, it is essential that parents take the initiative and engage with their children on race and racism. But for such a vast and complicated topic, where does one even start?
Please join us as Tucker Foltz - Education Programs Manager at Rokeby Museum - explains the burgeoning field of Early Childhood Education Racial Learning and Rokeby’s journey of teaching anti-bias curriculum to preschoolers.
This in-person workshop for dads and masc-identifying caregivers will take place on Wednesday, January 24th, 2024, from 7:00pm - 8:30pm at the Shelburne Town Office Complex (located at 5420 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne, VT).
Pre-registration is required. Please visit dadguild.org to register today!