French Colonial Missouri History.

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Text Box: Please touch and explore everything in our Hands-On History Room (located in the Bolduc-LeMeilleur House) at your own pace. This is a work in progress to make French Colonial Missouri History accessible and fun for the children who visit us. We expect to have it fully functioning by the end of 2010. When the Museum is closed, the Hands-on History Room will provide classroom space and an art gallery. This is where the Bedtime Stories for children will occur, for example. Text Box: Hands-on History Room– a work in progress Text Box: Trace the route of French Colonial American exploration on a large map and compare the way these people understood world geography to our own knowledge of it today Guess which items in the Museum collection came from buffalos, deer, birds, bear, plants, minerals, and trees Follow a time-line and connect important French Colonial American people with their pictures and accomplishments Play with the Bolduc Dollhouse or with the reproduction Bolduc kitchen tools and baby dolls Trace the Bolduc family tree Follow Dr. Connally’s architectural drawings and try to make a Norman Truss using blocks Figure out what happened when a shipment of French Colonial furniture was damaged on the way from Montreal, Canada to Sainte Genevieve, MO in 1957 Parlez-vous français? Learn to speak a few French words while you are here or play some colonial games like dominoes or continental checkers in French! Text Box: Help us to make the Hands-on History Room a reason to visit Sainte Genevieve by becoming one of our business partners. To learn about how you can sponsor one of the activity centers in this room, please call 573-883-3105. Donations are tax deductible because the Bolduc House Museum is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Text Box: Cook pretend corn on the cob using tools that look like the ones in the Bolduc House kitchen (right); Put one of the baby dolls on a recreated version of the potty high chair (left) that you can see in the Bolduc House bedroom or play a game of dominos (above) as long as you say the numbers in French. Photographs by Bruce Pendleton © 2009 by the Bolduc House Museum