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The Lutz Children's Museum is a non-profit children's museum located in Manchester, Connecticut, USA. Originally known as the Lutz Junior Museum, it was developed on March 4, 1953 by a vote of the Manchester Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Council. Their objective was to provide supplemental enrichment to students in their classrooms and asked the community to come forth with ideas. Hazel P. Lutz, the Chairperson of the Art Department in Manchester and also a world traveler, approached the PTA with the suggestion to establish a community youth museum. During her travels, she had collected a variety of artifacts and trinkets that she believed would be of interest to children. Hoping to use these items as educational tools, she established a “museum” in the storage closet of her schoolroom. Her collection grew through the donations of others and began to include items that could be related to most academic disciplines. From her storage closet, the PTA offered the museum its first official home in the basement of the Waddell School. By 1957 the rapidly expanding museum possessed hundreds of kits and had a volunteer league of one hundred people. The museum was established as a private non-profit organization 1958. The Board of Education also offered the museum a new home in June of that same year, and the museum was moved to 126 Cedar Street, adjacent to Washington School. The building was originally built by the Cheney family, owners of the nearby mills, in 1859 as a school for their children and children of factory workers. On September 26, 1958 the museum opened its new doors to the public. The museum now had a home that would allow the display of its collection, the exhibit of live animals, and a space to hold year-round classes for children. The museum continued to grow and by 1982, the museum had outgrown its home on Cedar Street and the Town of Manchester had proposed a larger building. The former South School building, situated beside the Charter Oak Reservoir with scenic views of the Manchester Country Club, was proposed as a new location. The museum accepted the larger building and adopted a new name at the same time. The Lutz Junior Museum became the “Lutz Children’s Museum." ==Education and events== The museum offers classes in art, history, and natural sciences taught by its resident teachers. In addition, the Lutz also offers In-School Resource Lessons, during which the museum's educators travel to schools, camps, and other children's programs to deliver lessons similar to the ones held at the museum. "They travel with museum artifacts or live animals and sometimes appear in costume."〔LutzMuseum.org〕 The Lutz Children's museum educators "typically have undergraduate degrees in their area of expertise, archaeology or biology for example, plus advanced degrees in education and/or teaching certification."〔 For more information about classes and In-School Resource Lessons, visit http://lutzmuseum.org/programs/classes/. The museum also hosts a number of events each year, including the annual Farm Day held at the Fish Family Farm in Bolton. Art exhibits are held during the school year, where Manchester's eight elementary schools select student artwork to be displayed. The artwork is sent to the museum, where the students are able to view their work on display. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lutz Children's Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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