1. Yes, for children and adults, preferably one for each group per month. We also do school outreaches on a per-request basis. 2. We try to round up some community speaker to give a lecture on some historical topic or other, do a walking tour of a cemetery or architecture, etc.once a month. It gets pretty sparse in winter, though. We try to offer a saturday morning fun time for kids every month, with story telling, old fashioned games, braided rug making, crystal radio (tied in with exhibition about local contributions to radio/TV industry), jackolantern carving contest (prizes for all), etc. I give a several-hour workshop on some aspect of conservation - e.g. how to take care of your photos, quilts, whatever about once a semester. We also co-sponsor a Civil War Reenactment (with parks & rec.). 3. Schools make lots of use of our 5 different outreach boxes which a volunteer takes and does a song-and-dance oops; I meant a show-and-tell. ;) We don't currently have enough staff or willing volunteers to do anything more ambitious. 4. We have a volunteer (arts administration student getting some practical experience -- vita type stuff) who lines up volunteers to do the school out- reaches; Phone requests for school tours are taken by whichever of the paid staff of 2 answers the phone, and either the volunteer docent or one of the curators (^^) actually gives the tour. We are small by virtue of budget. We have a paid professional staff of 2 (other curator is 1/2 time) and a volunteer pool of over 75. Christopher Bobbitt, Curator of Collections, acting director until the Board eventually finds one and we're back up to staff of 3 ;) Monroe County Historical Museum 202 E. 6th St. Bloomington, IN 47408 [log in to unmask]