Museums as Potential Classrooms

Find Humanities-Focused Exhibits Near You

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)—an independent grant-making agency of the U. S. government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities—supports a number of exhibits that travel across the country and, in some cases, around the world.

Teachers may find these exhibits useful as fieldtrip destinations, or, in instances where host museums maintain Web sites featuring the exhibits, as online enrichment opportunities.

During 2007, 26 traveling exhibits and 115 long-term exhibits funded with NEH support appear in 42 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Germany, and Switzerland. Some may be near you. For example:

• A traveling exhibit on the changing social meaning and dynamics of ¡Carnaval!— the carnival festival—based on case studies from communities in Europe and the Americas, runs 6/23/2007 to 1/6/2008 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA.
• A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie, a traveling exhibit featuring artifacts recovered from an English merchant slave ship that sank in the Florida Keys in 1701, runs through 5/19/2007 at the University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA.

And there are many more. To find out about exhibits near you, visit www.neh.gov/projects/et-index.html. Click on the map to see what's happening in your state, or view an alphabetical list of exhibits and their itineraries.

Note: No links are provided to Web sites of host museums or institutions; you will need to conduct Web searches to find them online.