Youth Group & Scout Info
Scouting
Scouts may earn their Hutchings Museum Scout Patch through completing a worksheet that guides them through each room in the Museum. This self guided tour is available Tuesday through Saturday. Latest tour begins at 4 pm each day.
Patches may be purchased at the Museum for $1.00. This patch and program are approved by the Scouting Program. The scout patch self tour takes approximately one hour to complete.
Proper Museum Etiquette
- Please do not touch any of the artifacts unless indicated as a touch/feel exhibit with the hand sign on the placard.
- Using quiet voices and maintaining good manners when in the Museum allows everyone an opportunity to enjoy and learn.
- We ask that scout groups stay together by room as they move from one room to another.
- Docents are available for help in questions that you might have.
- At the conclusion of the visit, your worksheets may be checked by your group leader for accuracy. Only worksheets that are 100% completed are eligible for the Hutchings Museum Scouting Patch. The answer key to the worksheet is available at the front desk.
- Again, we ask that you please do not touch any of the artifacts. Oils and dirt from hands will discolor and further deteriorate artifacts already in fragile condition.
- Restrooms and a drinking fountain are available in the middle of the Museum if needed.
- We are glad to have your group with us. We hope that you learn and enjoy the exhibits that have been provided.
Eagle Scout Projects:
The Hutchings Museum has a variety of potential Eagle Scout projects. We have a continuous need for field trip kits. The Museum is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization with the goal to help bring learning and natural history to life for the community and school groups that attend. One successful way the Museum has found to help educate and bring learning to life for patrons is to do hands on projects that correlate to certain rooms in the museum. At various community events and on field trips parents and teachers can choose to have their students etch a piece of rock art (petroglyphs), and/or sew together a medicine bag and beading kits.
For example, the children who have found their own fossil discoveries appreciate the Fossil Room in the Museum even more than before their fossil pecking experience. The fossil cupcakes, rock art plaques, and medicine bag kits take a lot of time for the Museum staff to make, and the Museum has limited staff hours due to its limited budget. The Museum would not be able to continue to offer these hand on educational experiences without the help of volunteers making the project kits.
These projects make for great Eagle Scout projects because an Eagle Scout will need to:
These projects make for great Eagle Scout projects because an Eagle Scout will need to:
1. Learn how to make the kits and the significance of each project to the Museum
2. Seek donations for supplies.
3. Gather supplies.
4. Recruit and organize volunteers and a place for them to help him assemble the kits.
5. Teach volunteers how to make kits and about their educational significance.
6. Oversee that kits are made correctly.
7. Return finished kits to the Museum to be enjoyed by many field trips.
2. Seek donations for supplies.
3. Gather supplies.
4. Recruit and organize volunteers and a place for them to help him assemble the kits.
5. Teach volunteers how to make kits and about their educational significance.
6. Oversee that kits are made correctly.
7. Return finished kits to the Museum to be enjoyed by many field trips.
Occasionally we have other needs such as woodworking/display cases and helping with events and displays.