Traveling Museum

Traveling Museum: Farming in Early Denton County | Traveling Museum: Ranching, Brands, and Cattle Trails | Traveling Museum: Historic African American Families | Traveling Museum: Historic Hispanic Families | Reservation Request Form

The museum has an outreach program for schools in Denton County. Staff and volunteers take a traveling trunk full of early pioneer artifacts to school classrooms to explain their use and talk about life in the early days. Museum tours may be scheduled for students and adults.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills

The traveling museums are suitable for teaching about different aspects of Denton County history.

• Denton County Families and Communities
• Farm Life in Early Denton County
• Ranching in Early Denton County
• Historic African American Families of Denton County
• Historic Hispanic Families of Denton County

The traveling museums can be adapted for grades K-12.

Please contact the Education and Tourism Director to discuss the TEKS that are appropriate for each grade level. Depending on the grade level, the traveling museums are appropriate for teaching multicultural, history, social studies, reading and language, writing skills and some fine arts, science and mathematical skills.

The traveling museums are free and open to any group including public and private schools, senior citizen groups, day care centers, and other community groups in Denton County. Each presentation takes about 45 minutes.

Scheduling

Groups are encouraged to schedule ahead of the requested date. The months of October, November and early December, March, April, and May are especially busy, so we encourage you to plan ahead so that we can schedule the requested time. For example, many schools now make their requests in September for much later in the school year.