History Comes Alive at Shelburne Museum

Imagine if you will a camp where kids can spend a week at sea or a week in 1795! Not everyone has access to a time machine, but Shelburne Museum in collaboration with the Flynn Center for the Arts, has been providing kids with just these opportunities at History Comes Alive!, a theater-based summer camp program going into its third consecutive year.  

The program is the brain-child of Joan Robinson, educator at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and continues with the support of Karen Petersen, Shelburne Museum’s Director of Education & Public Programs, who moonlights as various characters at the camp as well.

But see it for yourself in this superb video directed and edited by Jess Wilson from RETN.

History Comes Alive! Youth Engagement in Local History Through the Arts from RETN on Vimeo.