Macculloch Hall Historical Museum

In partnership with Morristown Medical Center, Atlantic Health System, Macculloch Hall Historical Museum is pleased to offer Growing Good Health, a FREE historic garden-based program focusing on:

-gardening
-healthy eating
-exercise
-creative time outdoors
-sustainability
-history
-community

Programs are held onsite in our garden and classroom. Programs are also held offsite in your classroom such as "Honeybees: Alive in the Hive" sharing the wonders of the honeybee and offering activities such as storytelling, building a honeycomb model, trying tools of the Beekeeper, and making a bee book.

The goal of Growing Good Health is to engage the full community with the historic gardens in a sustainable, integrated garden experience through creative learning and volunteer opportunities.

Youth Summer Garden Program.

Through hands-on gardening, guided interactive learning experiences, tours of the Museum’s exceptional eighteenth-century kitchen, and an art making experience with New Jersey artist and storyteller children will:

-learn how Macculloch Hall grew, prepared and stored fruits and vegetables to sustain the household throughout the year
-learn how to cultivate and care for a kitchen garden
-consider the positive environmental impact of pollinating insects and birds
-examine the nutritional and environmental impact of a local garden
-participate in the creative aspect of tending green space and using inspiration from it to create art
-explore the history of the community while participating in it

This program is made possible by a generous grant from The Astle-Alpaugh Family Foundation.

Elementary:
-A Home Away From Home- 1st grade
-Lessons from the Garden- 2nd-3rd grade

Thomas Nast for Middle & High School:
-Meet the Press: NY Civil War Weekly Newspapers– 5th-11th grade
-Curbing the Copperheads: Nast and the 1864 Election–5th -11th grade
-Portraying Post-War Presidents: Johnson and Grant– 5th– 11th grade

Civil War Lessons for Middle & High School:
-A Call to Arms– 5th-11th grade
-Capturing the Slave Ship Erie–5th-11th grade
-The Blockade Begins– 5th-11th grade

Offsite, Classroom Programs:
-Meeting Mr. Macculloch– 2nd– 4th grade
-Building the Morris Canal– 4th– 5th grade

Daisy Programs:
-Making Memories
-Louisa's Rose Garden

Brownie Programs:
-Celebrating Community
-Pen, Ink and Paintings

Junior Programs:
-Yes to the Dress
-It's About Time

Cadette Programs:
-Who Speaks For You?

Tiger Scout Programs:
-Shape Search
-Ready, Set, Float Your Boat

Wolf Scout Programs:
-Great Gardens
-Treasures Assembled

Bear Scout Programs:
-Machines that Move

Webelo Scouts Programs:
-Looking Back, Looking Forward
-Off the Wall

Boy Scout Programs:
- Architecture: Past and Present
-We the People

Programs include:
-Architecture (Fall/Spring)
-Remembering Abraham Lincoln (Year-Round)
-Transportation: Travel Then and Now (Year-Round)
-Thomas Nast (Year-Round)
-Celebrating The Secret Garden (Spring)

Programs include:
-Guess & Go Storytime weekly on Facebook Live

Macculloch Hall Historical Museum welcomes group tours Sunday-Thursday. Come enjoy our period rooms, changing exhibition galleries and two-acre historic garden. Group tours are scheduled by appointment: (973) 538-2404, ext. 11.