Museum Of Idaho Inc

The museum offers a steady stream of high quality educational programs led by dynamic and experienced educators, and including date nights, walking tours, lectures and hands on activities, to thousands of people per year. The vast majority of moi programming is offered at no or low cost to participants. Monthly programs little learners and discovery day, as well as annual events such as stem day at the museum are offered at no cost. Scholarships allow dozens of students from underserved populations to attend summer day camps and nights at the musuem, a semi-annual sleepover event for grades 3-6, for only 5-10 per student. For adults, the twice monthly museum club lecture series is offered at 5 each for public and at no cost for moi members. The museum also offers-sharp discounts to its educator summer camps for teachers who work in title i schools. Moi offers special spanish language days with discounted admission and is currently translatingits exhibit material into spanish and working with local spanish language groups to determine the preferred method of delivery. The museum of idaho works with local families and agences and has designed numerous programs tailored to learners with differing physical, intellectual and sensory needs. The museum also organizes public tours and conservation of a nearby archaeological site and is developing a cultural travel program.

Museum staff and volunteers care for more than 100,000 documents, photographs, objects and specimen relevant to idaho's heritage, and make those items and stories available to researchers. The museum also cares for a significant nearby archaeological site and the 80,000+ artifacts that have come out of it, and facilities academic research on the collection.

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