Tailor Your Visit
You can tailor your visit to our site and see interpretive information that is geared more specifically
to your interests and reading level. Below, we've grouped pages and features of the site according to different visitors. Review the options below, then return to the Home Page and begin exploring
our site from there.
If you are an...
Elementary school student (grades K through 6)
You might want to...
- look at old-fashioned clothes in Dress Up and check out other Things To Do
- check out some of the treasures from our museum in Browse
- search the Online Collection for something you're interested in
- try the interactive activities in the Turns of the Centuries Exhibit
- use the Look Closer feature
to zoom into pictures
Middle school student (grades 7 and 8)
You might want to...
- check out Things To Do
- look at old-fashioned clothes in Dress Up
- check out some of the treasures from our museum in Browse
- search the Online Collection for something you're interested in
- look through the Turns of the Centuries Exhibit and try the interactive activities
- use the "Look Closer" feature to zoom into pictures
High school student (grades 9 through 12)
You might want to...
- check out some of the treasures from our museum in Browse
- search the Online Collection for something you're interested in
- look through the Turns of the Centuries Exhibit including the interactive activities
- use the Look Closer feature
to zoom into pictures
- go to the First Person Oral History feature
Teacher
You might want to...
- look at the Curriculum in the In The
Classroom section
- check out the Activities By Teachers from
the In The Classroom page
- use the Look Closer feature
to zoom into images and documents
- try all the Things To Do to see if they're right for your students
- look through the Turns of the Centuries Exhibit and don't miss the interactive activities
- read How to Read Old Documents
- when viewing manuscripts, use the Text
Version button to read transcriptions
- go to the First Person Oral History feature
- have a look at the 1704 and Shays’ Rebellion websites
Researcher or historian
You might want to...
- use the Advanced Search page
in the Online Collection to conduct exact searches
- click the Detailed Info button
on the item pages
- use the Look Closer feature
to zoom into images and documents
- when viewing manuscripts, use the Text
Version button to read transcriptions
- look through the Turns of the Centuries Exhibit
- go to the First Person Oral History feature
- have a look at the 1704 and Shays’ Rebellion websites
- see our Map to African American Sites
General public
You might want to...
- use the Look Closer feature
to zoom into images and documents
- look through the Turns of the Centuries Exhibit and don't miss the interactive activities
- check out some of the treasures from our museum in Browse
- go to the First Person Oral History feature
- have a look at the 1704 and Shays’ Rebellion websites
We hope you enjoy visiting our site.
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