Museums ConnectMCARLM’s International Program

Dedicated April 17, 1982

The Monterey County Agricultural andRural Life Museum’s (MCARLM)specific and primary purposes are: thediscovery, acquisition and preservation ofartifacts; interpretation of museumexhibits, collections and historicstructures; dissemination of knowledgeabout the history of farming, agriculture,and related cultural services in the SalinasValley and adjacent areas; to promoteinterest through programs of publicinterest and education; and to coordinatefundraising campaigns for the support ofthe above purposes.

American Alliance of MuseumsMuseum Assessment Program

Community Engagement

• Increase understanding of:• Museum’s community and stakeholders

• How the museum is perceived by its audiences and community

• Improve the Alignment of:• Mission with audience and community

• Resource allocation with audience and community needs

• Improve ability to:• Communicate with the community

• Serve its audiences

• Identify and develop potential audiences

• Create collaborations to address community

needs

• Incorporate community needs into long-range

plans

• Conduct an audience evaluation

• Improve visitor services

• Meet audience needs through exhibitions and

programming

• Write/review/revise policies and procedures

• Write a long-range interpretive plan

• Write an emergency management plan

Museums Connect: Building Global Communities

The Museums Connect program strengthensconnections and cultural understanding betweenpeople in the United States and abroad throughinnovative projects facilitated by museums andexecuted by their communities.

Mission: to build global communities throughcross-cultural exchanges while alsosupporting U.S. foreign policy goals, suchas youth empowerment, environmentalsustainability and disability rightsawareness.

American Alliance of Museums

The Phone Call

Tales of Shock, Planning, Announcements and Civil War.

Or . . . Egypt, the program that wasn’t.

Moving forward . . . A Garden Program in Transition

Museums Connect Part 2 . . . Partnerships are formed

United States Honduras

Children of the Program

United States Honduras

United States Participants

Alan Angel Armando Brian

Daniela David Elizabeth Elmer

Fatima Jennifer Jose Jovanna

Perla Romeo Vanessa

Honduran Participants

Doris Gabriel Jairo Kenerson

Rafael Wilson Gilma Alexander

Rosario Naun

Common Ground ProgramProject Goals

• Participants develop awareness of the environment and one’s connection to it both locally and globally

• Participants develop a deeper understanding of environmental stewardship in their own and their partner’s country

• Communities in the US and Honduras acquire knowledge and tools to explain fundamental concepts about organic gardening

• Communities in both countries develop a broader knowledge and increased understanding of one another’s cultures

Activities, Outputs, & Evaluations• Garden Activities

• Workdays Twice a Month• Plant, weed, harvest, water, tend the worm table and make compost

• Classroom Activities• After School Activities Twice a Month

• Work on activities such as garden signs, videos, pen-pals, stelae, and cover curriculum topics

• Recipe Book• Submit at least one family recipe that uses garden vegetables for a cookbook

• Community Suitcase• Students share information about themselves, their families, schools, and neighborhoods by packing a community

Suitcase with a variety of objects that reflect their lives and the garden project

• Dialogues• Participants Get to Know Each Other

• Skype sessions at least 4 times during the course of the project• Participants participate in pen pals that they communicate via traditional mail.

• Travel• Delegation Teams

• Both countries send a delegation made up of museum staff and partners to present the participants’ stelae and community suitcases to exchange information regarding environmental education and stewardship strategies in partner countries.

• Evaluation• Participants complete pre- and post-project evaluations to measure outcomes.

TWIGS CurriculumCurriculum Overview

• 30 lessons that are developed to be used independently as subject is appropriate

• Tool for Adults to work with children in the development of a vegetable garden

• Helps children learn about healthy food choices through a connection to gardening

• Garden and Nutrition Emphasis• Connects children with science, nutritional food

and fiber production, ecological responsibility and community beautification

• Opportunities for application of math and science principles, language arts and multicultural awareness

University of California Cooperative

Extension

Youth Participants at WorkKing City Garden

King City Learning and Skyping

Copan Garden

Partners Connect

International Ambassadorship

• To meet the student participants

• Deepen the connection between the CKCM and MCARLM students through sharing of Community Suitcase

• Deepen the connection between project partners and communities

• To broaden awareness and knowledge of partner country and each others cultures

Travel to Honduras

Day One

• Meeting with Casa K’inich Team at Asociacion Copan

• Tour Casa K’inich ChildrensMuseum

• Opened in 2002 to cultivate the next generation of Hondurans to care for the World Heritage Site of Copan

• Tour of San Rafael Cheese Factory

• Meeting with Raul Welchez

• Chamber of Commerce and Industry President

• Hotel Proprietor

• Coffee Finca

• Cattle

The Teams Meet Ride up the Hill in a Tuk Tuk

Casa K’inich Childrens Museum Casa K’inich Childrens Museum

Gourmet Cheese Made in Copan Meeting with Copan Chamber

Day Two

• Mayan Ruins

• Sculpture Museum of Copan

• Over 43,000 Sq. ft, this museum houses and protects remarkable Copan sculptures and a life size replica of Rosalila, which was discovered by archaeologist and Museums Connect partner, Ricardo Agurcia in 1989.

• Casita Copan Children’s Home

• Mission – To reduce child abandonment by nurturing orphaned and vulnerable children and supporting single mothers.

• Vision – To break the cycle of child abandonment by providing essential childcare svs to working families whose economic situation puts their children at risk of abandonment and creating real homes for orphaned and abandoned children.

• Copan Public School

Mayan Ruins

Casita Copan Copan Public School

Day Three

• Day with the Children of Casita Copan

• One of the best days . . . Ever

• Tour and lunch at Macaw Mountain Bird Sanctuary

Hondurans Travel to USA

Day One

• Private Tour of Mission San Antonio de Padua with archeologist Dr. Hoover

• Cattle ranching

• Moving cattle with dogs

• Moving cattle with horses

• South County Hospitality

• Dinner, birthday party and live music as the Casey Home

Day Two

• Will Taylor Farms

• King City Nursery

• Gill Onions

• Hahn Estate Winery

• Cultural Activity

• Greenfield Community Science Workshop

• Scheid Vineyards

Day Three

• Matsui Orchid Factory

• Carmel Beach

• Fisherman’s Wharf

Day Four

• Tour of Monterey County Agricultural & Rural Life Museum

• Program/Visit BBQ

Day Five

• Monterey Bay Aquarium

• Cannery Row

• Lover’s Point

• Monterey Airport to say Goodbye!

Program ends . . . Goodbye to New Friends