The United States has always been and will always be a multicultural society — one where people from many distinct ethnic backgrounds have come together and form a society as a whole. Many museums mission is on one culture or ethnic group and others have specific exhibits on an ethnic group.
Study the history of the ethnic group and what you will be seeing, including the artist and artifacts.
Ancestry: one’s family or ethnic descent.
Artifacts: an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
Cultural: of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors
Ethnic Group: a community or population made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.
Ethnos: an ethnic group
Heritage: something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition.
Multicultural: is a situation in which all the different cultural or racial groups in a society have equal rights and opportunities, and none is ignored or regarded as unimportant.
- Classroom community building
- Listening skills
- Verbal communication
- Vocabulary development
- Information analysis
- Critical thinking/problem solving