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February 2021
Lunar New Year Celebration 2021
Join us in celebrating the Year of the Ox! UMaine International students will tell you about how Chinese New Year and Tet are celebrated in their homelands through a YouTube presentation. A downloadable instructional packet will have templates, directions and information on how you can create your own New Year’s decorations to celebrate the Lunar New Year. The Hudson Museum will prepare 8 activity baskets with arts and crafts materials and instructions. Baskets are designed for classroom use, with one…
Find out more »World Anthropology Day
World Anthropology Day is celebrated every year on the third Thursday in February. This holiday celebrates the field of Anthropology: the study of humans, human behavior, and societies in the past and present. To celebrate World Anthropology Day, check out the Hudson Museum's Adventures in Anthropology online activity. Explore how different cultures around the world approach the universal challenges of life as you take a virtual tour of the Hudson Museum's exhibits. How are these cultures similar? How do they differ? …
Find out more »March 2021
Virtual Archaeology Day 2021
This web-based program will take students on a tour of Hudson Museum collections and Anthropology Department Labs. Learn about UMaine research related to shell middens and efforts to document and preserve them, explore archaeological collections from Maine to Mesoamerica, and meet UMaine faculty, staff and graduate students who will talk about their research and how it informs our understanding of the past. Our favorite part of Archaeology Day every year is the amazing questions the students always have for us. …
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