• Guided tour of exhibitions


• Traditional obects handling and explanation


• Guided tour of the catholic church of the Saint-François-de-Sales Mission

Workshops (additional cost)

• Handcraft workshop (necklace or dreamcatcher)


• Light meals

Elementary schools: fill this Form to make a reservation.

Highschools: fill this Form to make a reservation.

NOMADIC MUSEUM

Classes presentation

The museum offers four workshops to create a dialogue between the children and the abenaki nation. The students will discover many aspects of the traditional way of life, the past heritage and have a contemporary look on the first nations.


Workshop 1: Cultural and material lifestyle

• Presentation based on the following concepts: nomadic/sedentary, man and woman tasks, life and seasons cycle.


• Presentation and handling of traditional objects: baskets, bow, drum, bone tools, etc.

Lenght : 45 to 50 minutes

Cost : Workshop included in the activity

Workshop 2: Fables and legends

• Presentation based on the oral tradition concept: teaching the native culture in the context of the legends.

Lenght : 45 to 50 minutes

Cost : 1.50$/child

Workshop 3: Handcrafting

• Initiate the children to the handcrafting by making them create their own object.

Lenght : 30 minutes

Cost: 3.00$/child

Workshop 4: The seasons in our plate. (traditional nutrition)

• Through the seasons, the students discover the food feeding the body and the symbolic universe of the abenaki : corn, strawberry, cranberry, sunflower, fern (fiddlehead fern) with a drink and a traditional bread (bannique).

Cost: 2.50 $/child


Fees for the nomadic museum

• 1 day animation : 175.00 $ (taxes included)


• 1/2 day animation : 90.00 $ (taxes included)


• Additionnal fees for workshop 2, 3 and 4


• Transportation fees: 0.35$/km

Fill this form to mak a reservation.