Education Programs
The Education Program at The Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History is run by Director of Education, Henry Lukas. Programs about the history of stamps and the postal system can be customized and presented at the museum or offsite. All children receive a free packet of stamps every visit. A completed quiz on the Main Gallery exhibits gives the opportunity to win even more stamps!
The Spellman Museum is Great for Kids
The Museum has been voted one of the three best museums for children by Nickelodeon in the Metro-West area. Children can do stamp scavenger hunts, make their own collection of stamps and do other hands-on activities. All children take home a free packet of stamps and information about how to start a collection.
School Field Trips Welcome
The Museum is available for school field trips as well as visits by the Museum's Education Director to classrooms of all grades. Programs can be designed to match current classroom curriculums. Programs for homeschooler families are also available.
Stamps, History and Social Studies
The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), the largest professional association for social studies educators in the world, defines social studies as “the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. Within the school program, social studies provides coordinated, systematic study drawing upon such disciplines as anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology, as well as appropriate content from the humanities, mathematics, and natural sciences. The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world." The Spellman Museum's education program addresses every aspect of this definition with the use of stamps and other philatelic materials.
Customized Education
The Spellman Museum programs include exhibitions, special events, and education programs for children and adults. The Museum mounts six to ten exhibitions per year in its three galleries and sends exhibitions to stamp shows, civic festivals, and other venues. The Museum sponsors five to six lectures, workshops, or other special events per year. Most occur at the Museum while others take place at regional meetings. The Museum's primary and secondary school education program reached 2000 school children in 2002. This included participants in formal on-site and in-school programs as well as participants in less formal drop-in activities. The Museum also provided special programs for200 assisted living seniors and early Alzheimer patients, both on-site and in-home.
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Going Postal - a monthly community access show by Director of Education, Henry Lukas
"Going Postal", brought to you by The Weston Media Center. Mondays at 7:30am & Wednesdays at 5:30pm on the Weston Community Access Channel
Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History's Director of Education, Henry Lukas, reads off historical stamp facts as graphics bob and weave around him. A one-of-a-kind show that only community access can do right!
Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History's Director of Education, Henry Lukas, reads off historical stamp facts as graphics bob and weave around him. A one-of-a-kind show that only community access can do right!
Going Postal Show Archive
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