The eckley miners' village museum, under the direction of the pennsylvania heritage foundation, will reduce geographic and financial barriers to artifacts-based history education through the coal…

The eckley miners' village museum, under the direction of the pennsylvania heritage foundation, will reduce geographic and financial barriers to artifacts-based history education through the coal country connection. This lifelong learning and outreach program will operate through three streams: 1) transportation scholarships for k-12 institutions to reduce budgetary hurdles to participating in eckley's on-site educational programs, which include guided interpretive tours of the museum's exhibits, artifacts, and built environment; hands-on enrichment activities in 19TH-century trades and crafts, and engagement with northeastern pennsylvania's rich histories of immigration, resource extraction, and environmental change; 2) traveling trunk scholarships, which will provide low- or no-cost, in-class programming through the delivery of artifact-based education capturing eckley's main interpretive themes by a professional museum educator or trained volunteer; and 3) lendable multimedia teaching kits containing for-use collection items or replicas, lesson plans, enrichment activities, and classroom supplies to facilitate learning in cases where museum visits or classroom visits are not feasible.