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4/8/99
Doak House Museum Receives Excellence Award
The Doak
House Museum on the campus of Tusculum College has been awarded a Tennessee
Association of Museums (TAM) Excellence Award in Educational Programming for
its fall,1998, program, "Storytelling and Gingerbread."
The Doak House was selected for one of only ten Excellence Awards from among over 200 museums in TAM.
The six-week "Storytelling
and Gingerbread" program, held in November and December of last year, saw
an audience of 990 school children from the East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia
areas. The program, which was designed to compliment the Kindergarten-2nd grade
curriculum, focused on life in 19th century Tennessee and included hands-on
activities in the Tusculum Academy.
The Doak House received the award at the TAM annual museum conference in Chattanooga
last month. The purpose of the Excellence Award is to recognize, encourage,
and promote excellence within Tennessee museums.
Awards are based on creativity,
originality, resourcefulness, success, support of museum mission statement and
utilization of staff and volunteers.
"We knew there was a need for this type of program and we are happy we
were able to fulfill this need," said Doak House Associate Director Cindy
Lucas. "The community outreach and support was wonderful and we hope to
continue that connection," she said.
