Working and schooling at home can make for some trying times. Although the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum is currently closed to comply with health requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic, Museum staff are still working. Knowing that many of our visitors are fourth grade students and homeschoolers, we have […]
Youth Programming
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The Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County and the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum are coming together to host our first MAKER DAY celebrating “Making” in all of its forms. This fun, family-friendly, one-day festival celebrates the inquisitive spirit in all of us as we learn, invent, craft, make, play, […]
If you have children, grand-children, or mentees who are 8-12 years of age and don’t know what to do with their summer vacation, we have a great two-day camp for them coming up June 17 & 18! ArchiCamp is an architecture-based camp that uses historic architecture to educate and excite […]
2010 Youth Academy students learn what it was like toundergo surgery on the Civil War battlefield. Crawfordsville, Indiana, May 25, 2011—Amanda Wesselmann, Associate Director of the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum and Coordinator of the Lew Wallace Youth Academy, announced today that enrollment into the weeklong day camp, held […]
The final day of the Lew Wallace Youth Academy was filled with the sounds and sights of war! Students spent the morning with Mid-States Living History Association, Inc. at stations portraying a period telegraph, medical care, embalmer, cooking, and finally an interview with the General himself. The day ended with […]
The fourth day of the Lew Wallace Youth Academy focused on Solving Problems – inventing, altering landscapes, and designing buildings. Intern Kasey Greer (Indiana Univerisity Class of 2013) gave a behind-the-scenes tour of the Study basement (shown here under the back porch). This was a special treat because the basement […]
The Museum is known as the Home of Ben-Hur, and the grounds once again served as a writing studio. Dr. Helen Hudson led the Academy students through several different activities: outlining a biography of a fictional character named Robin Snow (whose gender and life details each small group determined for […]
Following in the tradition of Lew Wallace, Academy students spent the morning painting en plein air. Have you ever noticed that trees are not a solid shade of green or brown? Using acrylic paint, artist Karen Patton instructed the kids on color values and ways to add details that make […]
The 2010 Lew Wallace Youth Academy had a successful first day of Exploring Other Cultures. Dr. James Makubuya and Sr. Stella Sabina lead activities in speaking Luganda and Swahili, as well as dancing, singing, and playing instruments traditional to the African country of Uganda. The first day of the Academy […]