Macculloch Hall Historical Museum

Center Hall, Macculloch Hall Historical Museum

It's your turn to design a museum exhibit to your school. With your teacher's help, either draft a plan for a museum exhibit or create a dedicated space for you to make your museum exhibit. 

Using the research you did in the Student Engagement Activity, what will your exhibit communicate to the viewers? Are there any objects or photographs you can use to add to the stories you are telling? 

The checklist below can be used to help guide you in designing your own exhibit about your school. 

1. Determine your exhibit story using the questions below.

2. Identify your objects and photographs you want to use

3. Decide the order of your objects based on the story you want to tell about your school.

4. Write exhibit text panels and labels for your exhibit.

5. Put your labels and objects together. Make sure to put the right labels with the right objects. 

Student Engagement: Create your Own Museum Exhibit

Five generations of the Macculloch - Miller - Post family lived at Macculloch Hall. From 1810-1947, this family experienced and participated the events of American history. Learn more about the descendants who lived at Maculloch Hall and their accomplishments by exploring the timeline below.

1812-1949: Who is living at Macculloch Hall?

While he never lived at Macculloch Hall, W. Parsons Todd is an important part of the Museum's history. Click through the slideshow images below to learn more about him. 

W. Parsons Todd

School desks at Macculloch Hall Historical Museum

Student Engagement: Preserving Your School's History

The people who work at museums have choices to make about what stories are told, what artifacts are displayed, and how people tour the spaces. Over the past 75 years,  Macculloch Hall Historical Museum has looked different. Click through the slides below to see past and present ways visitors saw the museum.

Interpreting Macculloch Hall Historical Museum: Then and Now

Pick one of the rooms from the previous activity and compare and contrast them in the Venn Diagram below. Students can write directly on the Venn Diagram using the text tools or download and print a PDF of the page to complete with a pencil. 

Student Engagement: Compare and Contrast MHHM Rooms 

Macculloch Hall Historical Museum has hundreds of objects in the collection. They cannot display all of them at once. It is the job of museum staff to pick the objects that tell relevant and engaging stories about the history associated with the house and those who lived in it. Click through the slideshow to learn about some of the key artifacts on display at the museum.

Key Objects in the Collection

Think about the role museums have to educate the public on the history of a community as you answer the following questions. 

Reflection and Discussion Questions

Established in 1950, Macculloch Hall Historical Museum has served as Morristown's community museum for 75 years. But how does one family's home go from a place to live to a museum for all? This Resource Kit explores the history of the building, the people who lived in the home, and how a museum was created. Students have the opportunity to research and design their own museum exhibit about their school's history

Resource Kits

Object Library

Museums

From Home to Museum: How do you Make a Museum?

Student Engagement: Create your Own Museum Exhibit

Guiding Question

Your Turn

Building a Museum Exhibit Checklist