| By Big Radio News Staff |
The Milton House Museum, Wisconsin’s only certified Underground Railroad site open to the public, is pushing to take its lessons statewide.
In refreshing the Milton House’s strategic plan last year, executive director Keighton Klos’ leadership team set the goal to have every K-12 student in the Badger State interact with the Milton House in some way.
In pursuit of that goal, the museum is trying to develop digital tours, one for elementary school, one for middle school and one for high school.
Klos says the Milton School District is also helping the museum create materials for teachers to use in classrooms statewide to augment social studies courses.
Early returns on the Milton House’s expansion efforts look promising. Field trip season traditionally doesn’t come around until spring, but Klos says the museum, which tells the stories of Black freedom seekers and area abolitionists who helped them settle in free states like Wisconsin, has had some school tours already this fall.
Between school tours and Civil War Living History Days, Klos estimates the museum reached between 3,000 and 4,000 students last school year.
Gov. Tony Evers also toured the museum at the end of October, and Klos says museum staff filled him in on their goal to go statewide.
To learn more, schedule a tour or donate to the museum, go to miltonhouse.org.
