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Discovery Guides

A Web based resource for teachers and students in the Museum Explorers Project. These guides will expand the understanding of Museum objects and artifacts and related resource for use in an online project.

Select a topic below to experience a Discovery Guide:

Fine and Decorative Arts:
American Furniture	Federal Art of the Great Depression	Illinois Artists
History
Barrelmaking (Cooperage)	History of Communication	Victorian Era
Blacksmithing	History of Photography	Woodworking
Civil War	Household Tools	World War I
Coal Mining	The Pioneers	World War II
Forestry	Textileworking	Great Depression
Tools of the Cobbler
Sciences
Early Medical Practices	Gemstones and Minerals	Paleobotany
Paleontology
World Cultures
Afghanistan	Guatemalan Textiles	Musical Instruments
Africa	Melanesia	Nepal
American Indian	Mexico	Toys
Australian Aborigines	Mexico-Huichol Indians	Vietnam

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