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Van Cortlandt House Museum offers free field trips for Bronx public schools, expands programming and community advisory committee
Summary
Margaret Holmes, director of the Van Cortlandt House Museum, told Community Board 11’s Education, Culture and Youth Services Committee the museum offers no-cost field trips for Bronx public schools, is expanding programming that addresses indigenous and enslaved histories, and has formed a community advisory committee to inform a three-year plan.
Margaret Holmes, director of the Van Cortlandt House Museum, told Community Board 11’s Education, Culture and Youth Services Committee that the museum provides free field trips for Bronx public schools and is expanding programs and community outreach. Holmes spoke during the committee’s meeting and invited board members to participate in a newly formed community advisory committee.
Holmes said the museum’s educational program highlights multiple layers of local history — indigenous, Dutch and African — and was developed to align with New York City fourth-grade curriculum while remaining adaptable for other grades. “I’ve been the director of Van Cortlandt House for just going on a year now, and we’ve had a really good active year,” Holmes said.
The nut of the matter is that Van Cortlandt House, located within Van Cortlandt Park, is emphasizing fuller, more transparent interpretation of its past. The house dates to 1748 and, the…
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