Teaching Museum Tours

The purpose of the Teaching Museum is to give students Hands-On learning experiences coordinated with classroom curriculum. The Museum provides students the opportunity to experience first hand that which was previously available to them through books. Students are encouraged to explore, to investigate and to question. The Museum also offers an inter-generational opportunity for both students and community. It is anticipated that museum experiences enhance skills and that life skills reward society with active, knowledgeable, contributing members of our society.

The courtroom looks very much like a turn of the 20th century courtroom that could be found almost anywhere in the United States. To honor those Justices who helped to establish precedents of law for our nation, pictures of several Justices and Chief Justices have been placed on the wall. Students can come to this room and experience what it is like to be a judge, a lawyer, a member of a jury, or even a defendant in a case. Activities involving the courtroom have been developed for children kindergarten through the twelfth grade. It is believed that they will have a better understanding of our judicial system after participating in these courtroom activities.

Nuremberg paper Visit the new exhibit which is our reproduction of Anne’s hiding place during the Nazi invasion of Holland during World War II. Cathy Kaemmerlen portrays Anne Frank as she shares the stories from her poignant diary. Two classes will come for the morning; they will hear about Anne Frank and they will go to the courtroom and to the Decade Room for a discussion of the the Trial at Nuremberg.

Of interest to everyone, especially children, is the Log Cabin room. This room is a replica of a farmhouse in Roswell in the post Civil War period circa 1880. Stories by Laura Ingalls Wilder are told in an effort to create an interest in reading and studying about history. As they participate in programs in the room, we remind children to think of all the luxuries we enjoy today and compare their lifestyle with that of an 1880 Roswell farm family.

One of the most traumatic and turbulent decades in the history of our country was the period of the 1930s. The roaring 20s had been a release from the tension of World War I but the excesses of that decade helped to produce the great world depression of the 30s. Families enjoyed radio programs and movies; sports were a big part of daily life. The Harlem Renaissance flourished in the 1920s and 1930s among the largely middle class and well educated blacks that lived mostly in Harlem. The Jazz Age owed its name to the music that grew out of black urban culture. The decade came to an end with the invasion of Poland by German stormtroopers on September 1, 1939. Great Britain and France declared war on Germany slightly more than 25 years after the beginning of World War I.

Though Georgia was the last colony founded in the New World, her contributions and accomplishments have put her in the forefront of our nation. Our state has been richly blessed with an abundance of very talented writers who are showcased in the Georgia History Room. Events from our past and present are depicted in pictures, drawings and artifacts.

The Presidential Exhibit features life-size portraits by artist Mary Jane Warren-Stone of selected Presidents and First Ladies. Pictures from the National Archives add reality to the portraits, clothes, and memorabilia found in the exhibit. The exhibit also explores the role of the first lady.