Museum Kids

Do you want to know what it was like to live in Missouri during the eighteenth century? Thanks to seven year old Henry Brackenridge you can. He was sent to Ste. Genevieve in 1793 by his father in Philadelphia to learn French. He stayed for three years and returned when he was a grown-up. Then he wrote several books with detailed information about his time in Ste. Genevieve—playing with clay marbles, learning to shoot arrows with Shawnee Indian boys, learning to dance the minuet at children’s balls after mass, and being really really sick. We’ll show you what his experience would have been like using his own words. The full article can be also found at EssayWritingStore.com.

Find the footprints made by Zuts, our virtual mascot! He is a grey squirrel descended from ‘Tit Monsieur, the secret pet of Agatha Bolduc who learned to read and write and started a journal of his observations of the humans in the Bolduc House. Every artifact marked with one of Zuts’ footprints can be touched. Zuts' Photo Album Follow Zuts' blog Zuts is on FB! Join Zuts' Birthday Club
	Join Zuts’ Birthday Club if you are between 1 and 12 years old. Our literate squirrel will send you a birthday card get free admission and a birthday sticker when you come to the Museum during your birthday week. Hold your birthday party here, too!!
	Homeschoolers learn how to repair the bousilliage  on the 18th century vertical log Bolduc House
Visitors learn how draft horses helped open Missouri to colonial settlers.

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