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American experience in Panama Canal Zone
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Education
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General Public/Unspecified
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
Program Description:
Operate a full service museum containing exhibits, library and archives related to the Panama Canal focusing on the organization's raison d'etre: to collect, articulate, and preserve the story of the American experience in the Panama Canal in order to illuminate a great part of our nation's history. The museum has educational programs presented to school children, libraries, community centers, retirees, and cruise passengers. Educational programs and traveling exhibits linked to State-mandated educational standards. Museum relies on individual donors, corporate donors, gift shop sales, and grants for revenues. The American Era of the Panama Canal ended on December 31,1999, thereby making it imperative to preserve this history before it is lost. Major beneficiaries include descendants of citizens and builders of the Canal from across the globe, the maritime community, military, historians, genealogists, and students.
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On October 23, NASA Astronaut Dr. Scott Parazynski, a descendent of Col David Gaillard, the distinguished and widely acclaimed Army Engineer who was charged with the cutting through the Continental Divide during the Canal's construction, took aboard the space shutte, "Discovery", two Roosevelt Medals which came from the Museum's official collection. He presented the medals and an American flag to the museum in July 2008.
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PANAMA CANAL MUSEUM IN A TRUNK
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$13,000
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Education
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Children Only (5 - 14 years)
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Youth/Adolescents only (14 - 19 years)
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The Panama Canal Museum has created an innovative program, "Museum in a Trunk", to bring the history of the Panama Canal to our schools. Designated as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World and a Monument of the Millennium by the American Society of Civil Engineers, it is time to share with our children the heroic story of the design, completion and operations of one of the outstanding achievments in the history of the world.
"WHAT IS A TRUNK?" Trunks are used to support the museum's educational outreach program to schools. Trunks include indepth lesson plans (specific to each state) with accompanying PowerPoint presentations, maps, DVDs, books, Canal related artifacts, indigenous and contemporary music. Trunks can be placed in school districts anywhere in the U.S. alowing teachers to use the lesson plans on the Panama Canal to foster discussions in science, mathematics, engineering and social studies. Some of the official presentations of the Panama Canal Museum in a Trunk include: Leon County School District, FL; Manatee County Public School District, FL; Ocean Lakes Elementary School in Virginia Beach, VA; Oyster-Adams Bilingual School in Washington, D.C. The Ambassador of Panama to the US spoke to students about the importance of the Panama Canal at the Washington presentation. The next scheduled presentation is to Holy Spirit Catholic School, Jacksonville, FL; this is the first presentation to a parochial school.
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Long term success will be difficult to measure at t his time. We hope to realize our goal of helping young people to learn about the history of the Panama Canal and allowing teachers to use our lesson plans that foster discussions in science, math, engineering and social studies. Results of testing students in the areas of the U.S. in which we have placed our Museums in a Trunk will provide measurable statistics over the next few years.
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"Write of Passage"
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Education
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General Public/Unspecified
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The Panama Canal Museum planned a special program to collect, compile and document the histories of the many families who lived and worked in the Canal Zone andPanama beginning from the outset of the Canal construction period and going through the end of the American Era in 1999. Histories were published in a book entitled, "Write of Passage."
The book has received rave reviews and includes 106 family stories, including contruction day work experiences, Roosevelt Medal holders and descendants, life in the former Canal Zone and in Panama, family relationships, family photos, pictorial journey through the American era of the Panama Canal. The 300-page book's success is due to providing a fascinating glimpse of life in Panama and the former Canal Zone during the years 1904-1999, the American era of the Panama Canal.
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West Indian Exhibit
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Education
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Adults
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Ethnic/Racial Minorities -- Other Specified Group
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The Panama Canal Museum as part of its series of mini exhibits and programs during the "Year of the Museum" cooperated with Sociedad de Amigos del Museu Afroantillano de Panama/Society of Friends of the West Indian Museum of Panama (SAMAAP) to bring tothe museum in Seminole an exhibit titled "West Indians in Panama during the American Era". The exhibit consisted of photographs that illustrated the themes of: immigration, labor, edcation, religion and family as they pertained to the West Indian community in Panama.
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