Rhode Island Historical Society Offers New Interactive Learning Challenges Beginning with Winter Holiday Traditions
(WOONSOCKET, R.I.) – The Rhode Island Historical Society is excited to announce the start of their first interactive Discover Rhode Island History Challenge: Winter Holiday Traditions, a celebration of Rhode Island’s connections to holidays from around the world.
The challenge, which is appropriate for all ages, allows individuals, families, and classes to earn badges while discovering the history, traditions, and RI connections to holidays originating across the world. Badges are earned through reading, creating, cooking, singing, writing, and more. Holiday badges include: Advent, Chinese New Year, Diwali, Hanukkah, and Kwanza.
The program begins December 19 and ends January 3. Those who finish the challenge will receive a free virtual tour of the Museum of Work & Culture, a certificate of completion, and a special bonus activity. All participants will also be entered into a drawing for a free family membership to the RIHS.
Participants can register for free by visiting:
About the Museum of Work & Culture
The interactive and educational Museum of Work & Culture shares the stories of the men, women, and children who came to find a better life in Rhode Island’s mill towns in the late 19th- and 20th centuries. It recently received a Rhode Island Monthly Best of Rhode Island Award for its SensAbilities Saturdays all-ability program.
About the Rhode Island Historical Society
Founded in 1822, the RIHS, a Smithsonian Affiliate, is the fourth-oldest historical society in the United States and is Rhode Island’s largest and oldest historical organization. In Providence, the RIHS owns and operates the John Brown House Museum, a designated National Historic Landmark, built in 1788; the Aldrich House, built in 1822 and used for administration and public programs; and the Mary Elizabeth Robinson Research Center, where archival, book and image collections are housed. In Woonsocket, the RIHS manages the Museum of Work and Culture, a community museum examining the industrial history of northern Rhode Island and of the workers and settlers, especially French-Canadians, who made it one of the state’s most distinctive areas.