Outreach

Can’t come to the Museum? Let the Museum come to you! The Museum offers a wide variety of outreach options, based on your needs.

Museum staff can provide a lecture or talk for your group. Select from our wide range of Speaker’s Bureau topics, tailored to your audiences’ age and timeframe. We have taken our talks to many local schools, colleges, YMCAs, the Stark County Genealogical Society, the Massillon Women’s Club, libraries, churches, and other social groups. Click here for a full list of Speaker's Bureau topics.

The Educator can develop a custom made outreach program based on your curriculum needs and resources available at the Museum. Outreach is free, unless costs must be incurred for additional supplies. Donations are always appreciated.

Previous outreach has included:

  • Bower’s Elementary, 2nd grade classes- Lesson on Ohio wildlife and “green” craft activity making animal tracks out of recycled coffee grounds from the Chit Chat Coffee Shoppe
  • Gorrell Elementary, 3rd grade gifted class- monthly visits to make “green” art projects with curriculum links. 2009-10 projects included making a recycled scarecrow, recycled CD and balloon hovercrafts, newspaper chairs, Sharpie chromatography, spray paint stencil t-shirts, Modernist self portraits, recycled paper making, found object clay sculptures, and more (Funded by an ArtsinStark SmARTS Grant).
  • Washington High School, 11th grade research class- research techniques with Massillon Museum archive and other resources
  • Summit Academy, 9th grade class- Museum Careers talk
  • L.J. Smith Elementary Fall Festival- Scarecrow making
  • Washington High School, general art classes- Museum Careers talk
  • Paul David YMCA- monthly visits to Child Watch and Daycare groups, along with kid’s summer fun camps. Projects included edible jewelry making, habitat paintings, fruit and vegetable printmaking, and more.
  • Stark County Library Jackson Branch- Photographic Composition Workshop, “Green” Pigment and Paint Making Workshop, Modernism Portrait Painting Workshop.

    Ongoing outreach:

  • Bowers & Gorrell Elementaries, 3rd & 4th grade gifted classes- monthly visits with art projects tied into the social studies curriculum (Funded by an ArtsinStark SmARTS Grant).
  • Paul David YMCA- monthly visits to Child Watch and Daycare groups.
  • Massillon Family YMCA- monthly visits to Daycare and After School groups.

    Have an idea for outreach? Want us to visit your group? Contact us today!

    Contact Us:

    Jill Malusky
    Museum Educator
    330-833-4061, ext. 104
    Click here to email Jill

    Massillon Museum
    121 Lincoln Way East
    Massillon, Ohio 44646
    (330) 833-4061

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