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Kids and Family
Museo Packs
Included with Admission
How do you get a your family to explore and learn about heritage for longer than five minutes? Give them a Museo Pack!
Museo Packs are filled with exciting activities for children ages 6 to 12. Each Pack has a theme and contains a series of interactive learning activities that take your child through the Museum galleries. The Packs are developed to inspire, motivate and teach you and your children about the history and culture of Banff National Park.
The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies’ Education and Interpretation Department has spent many hours researching, developing and designing the Museo Packs to ensure a high level of quality. The Packs are designed to withstand young hands, to be easily understood and to appeal children six to twelve year olds.
A look inside the Packs…
 Art Adventures! was developed to teach children about landscape art and to foster an appreciation of our National Park’s landscape and history. Geoshapes! is an activity where children create landscape art using fun and colourful shapes. Art Detective! uses clues to encourage kids to find mystery landscape paintings. Colour! provides transparent colour paddles to teach about colour mixing, and about the colours found in Peter and Catharine Whyte’s landscape paintings of the national park.
 The Adventures of Peter and Catharine contains a series of activities telling the story of our founders, Peter and Catharine Whyte. Through this story, children will discover more about Banff’s history and culture. Childhood uses puzzle cards to tell the story of Peter and Catharine’s very different childhoods. Art School draws inspiration from Peter and Catharine’s portraits and teaches children how to draw their self-portrait. Build your own log home! challenges children to build their own log cabin, like Peter and Catharine did. Children learn about the Stoney Nakoda First Nations people and the Whyte’s good friend Chief Walking Buffalo in Native Friends. Winter Fun is a fun skiing game, which includes colour-your-own medals! Treasure Collecting takes kids on a hunt for clues to find special artifacts in the exhibition Peter and Catharine Whyte: Their Story.
 NEW: That’s Elemental! is based on the four elements of nature; earth, water, air, and fire. This natural science pack uses activities and Connection Cards to teach kids about how interconnected our environment is and how important it is to keep ecosystems healthy and intact. The water activity River Friends, introduces ten animals through illustrated character cards. The air activity, a storybook, When Bear Stole the Chinook by Harriet Peck Taylor tells a First Nations legend about the Chinook winds. The earth activity, Rocky Mountain Bash, is an interactive way to learn about mountain building. Take the fire activities include, Fire Cycle Challenge and the Tree Cookie Count which teaches children about trees, how to count the rings to tell their age and when fires occurred. Create an environmental masterpiece with our Create your own Ecosystem activity!
All packs contain a magnifying glass for children wanting to take a closer look at artifacts and evaluation sheets for your children to rate their favorite activities.
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