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The Museum of Belize is marking its fourth anniversary and as part of the celebration, an activity room was opened today. The idea behind it is to have schoolchildren come in to the museum in their after school hours, and while there they'll be able to gain some extra knowledge in the arts as well as in history. The museum's educator Kernell Parks explains.

Kernell Parks,
"Opening the activity room was essential being that today's the fourth anniversary here at the Museum of Belize and to commemorate that we are opening the activity room. The activity room is geared towards children and we are hoping to get the feedback from the parents sending their children here in the evening from about 3:30 to 5 o'clock there about to just have somewhere for their children to be after school and having this space here at the Museum we saw it fitting to open the area and turn it into a activity room geared towards the children. We will be showing them the different arts and crafts, how to go about doing it, and create little crafts that they could take home with them in the evening after leaving. This is one aspect of the whole thing, upstairs we have our multimedia center where we will be teaching them about the whole displays that are going on here at the Museum. We will also incorporate a couple of those things in the art activities."