ASSINIBOIA - The hours that go into maintaining a museum, both property and inventory, are immeasurable, with many hours undertaken by volunteers. Your way of showing your support of their efforts is by taking your family, your neighbours or your visitors to the museum.
Do you know the benefits of visiting museums?
Whether you are young or old there is educational value of your community’s museum is invaluable. Museums provide a rich educational experience that will enhance understanding of diverse culture and societies that were once part of our community or provincial heritage. Visitors may discover something that they may now have known previously. Museums are especially enlightening to the younger generation as they learn of how their community and province was founded and the difficult circumstances some of the early settlers and homesteaders faced in building their community and this province, and country.
Learning about their early way of life, early transportation and even communication methods in the past, helps gain appreciation of the technology and life conveniences we enjoy today. Some say learning of the hard work, yet simplistic lifestyles, have inspired them to potentially adopt some of these methods to slow down their fast paced lives.
Our museums foster appreciation and respect for different cultures and historical contexts. While touring exhibits and history on display, we can see the challenges our forefathers faced and the creativity in overcoming some of these obstacles in building stable homes and livelihoods for their families, and often that knowledge resonates into appreciation for elder members of our own families.
If there is art displayed at the museum in your location, it can inspire visitors’ own creative projects and increase appreciation for artistic expression.
Social interaction is a big bonus. As with churches and community businesses in the past that offered opportunity for social gathering, Museums often include social activity and spaces where people can participate in events and activities encouraging community engagement. Summer is prime time for activity at our local museums and include engagement activities for all generations. If your local museum has a website, these events are listed on their page as well as any social media pages they offer.
