Drop in Craft – Guatemalan Worry Dolls
Off School for the day? No worries - come join us at the METC Education Annex for our FREE Drop in Craft. We’ll be learning about and making Guatemalan Worry Doll, […]
Off School for the day? No worries - come join us at the METC Education Annex for our FREE Drop in Craft. We’ll be learning about and making Guatemalan Worry Doll, […]
Who and what is a “Latinx”? And how is it different from Latin American? This lecture given by Emma Oslé, Rutgers PhD candidate, offers a cursory inside look at the […]
Join graffiti artist Dan Fenelon for this creative workshop handcrafting masks using recycled materials and paper maché. Dan will work with students to create masks inspired by colonial history. Participants will learn how form using cardboard and other recycled materials, use glue guns, cut with scissors use paint, glue, and sequins to make their masterpieces. […]
The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts (METC) will be hosting Les Monarcas de Barro (The Butterflies of Mud) in collaboration with the mutual aid society Mutual Morris on the METC lawn Bottle Hill day. Please be sure to stop by and learn about these organizations. Les Monarcas de Barro is dedicated to ceramic justice, […]
As Halloween rolls around, we pull out the plastic skeletons without thought to what they represent. Skeletons are ubiquitous with holiday décor, but most people don’t realize how much we learn about our past from human skeletal analysis. The study of human remains in their archaeological context, known as bioarchaeology, provides tantalizing insights into past […]
In recognition of National Native American Heritage Month, METC is hosting this lecture on the untold stories of the Native American experience. Please join us to hear from Brianna Dagostino, a member of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Native American Tribal Nation of South Jersey. This program brings to light various topics history books have hidden from […]