Museum's TOTE Family Fun Fest returns for 10th year

 

Museum鈥檚 TOTE Family Fun Fest returns for 10th year

Submitted by Kerynn Fisher
Phone: 907-474-6941

06/05/08

Photo caption below.
Photo by Kerynn Fisher/UA Museum of the North
A father-son team checks out dermestid beetles from the museum鈥檚 colony at the 2006 TOTE Family Fun Fest.

The University of Alaska Museum of the North鈥檚 TOTE Family Fun Fest returns for its 10th year this Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. The popular annual event features hands-on activities for kids of all ages under the big top tent on the museum鈥檚 east lawn.

Kids will enjoy navigating a salmon migration obstacle course, making their own beadwork, building plant presses, dissecting owl pellets, investigating insects, learning Eskimo dances with the Pavva Inupiaq dancers and other activities related to the museum鈥檚 exhibits and research collections. Special guest PBS character Curious George will be making the rounds of the activities and visiting with children.

Admission is $3 per child. Parking is available in the museum鈥檚 RV lot, located to the east of the big top tent, with additional parking in 性欲社鈥檚 Natural Sciences parking lot. Refreshments will be available from 性欲社鈥檚 Dining Services and Aunt Alice鈥檚 Old Time Kettle Corn.

The museum鈥檚 TOTE Family Fun Fest started in 1999 as a fundraiser for the museum鈥檚 expansion and has grown in popularity every year, drawing hundreds children and parents to enjoy a fun-filled day of museum activities. Totem Ocean Trailer Express has served as the lead sponsor of the event since 2000.

CONTACT: Kerynn Fisher, University of Alaska Museum of the North communications coordinator, at 907-474-6941 or 907-378-2559.