Schools expected to benefit from mobile museum programme

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony presents keys to the vehicle to the Assistant Secretary, (Admin) of the Culture, Youth and Sport Ministry, Alexis Sullivan. (GINA photo)

Fifty schools across Guyana will have the opportunity to have real artifacts/specimens in their classroom with the introduction of the mobile museum programme.

This is according to the Government Information Agency (GINA), which reported that a vehicle that will be used for transporting the artifacts was handed over by Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony to the Guyana National Museum on Thursday.

Dr Anthony was quoted as saying at the handing over of the vehicle that this method of teaching children about their country’s history was patterned after the school loan programme of the Chicago Museum of