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Media contacts: Kim Schuette: 614.297.2314 or kschuette@ohiohistory.org
For Immediate Release
Campus Martius Museum Reopens April 4 For 2009 Season
(MARIETTA, Ohio) – The Ohio Historical Society's Campus Martius Museum will open for the 2009 season April 4, 2009. The museum had been scheduled to reopen March 1 for public visitation, but recent state budget cuts have required that the Society delay the museum's reopening for a month.
According to William K. Laidlaw Jr., the Society's executive director and CEO, "Naturally, we had been looking forward to reopening Campus Martius in March, but our financial situation has required aggressive cost-cutting measures on our part."
Although Campus Martius will not be open to the public in March, all school field trips and programs will go on as scheduled. Both Campus Martius and the nearby Ohio River Museum are happy to schedule additional field trips and programs throughout March and the rest of the year.
Scheduled for March is the Campus Martius' popular "Achievement Advantage" program, which helps area grade school students prepare for state-mandated proficiency testing in May. "Achievement Advantage" will take place Mar. 16 – 20 and 23 - 27. Another school program offered is the museum's popular Pioneer Living Program, in which students discover the lives of Marietta's first American settlers by learning skills that pioneers needed to survive.
All Washington County schools that schedule field trips to the museums can participate in the "Hometown History on Wheels" program. The program reimburses schools for their cost in providing bus transportation for their students to Campus Martius and the Ohio River Museum. Since Hometown History on Wheels started in 2005, more than 2,100 students have visited the museums because of the program. Hometown History on Wheels is currently conducting a fund raising drive to support this school year's program.
Also still scheduled is a talk March 1 featuring local historian Gary Williams, who will expose "Spies, Scoundrels, and Rogues of the Ohio Frontier," based on his latest book of the same name, which will be for sale at the talk. The talk is from 2 – 3 p.m. at the Campus Martius Museum and is sponsored by the Friends of the Museum.
Campus Martius is located at 601 Second Street in Marietta (corner of Washington and Second Streets). For more information about programs at Campus Martius or the Ohio River Museum, please call 740.373.3750 or toll-free 800.860.0145, or e-mail cmmoriv@ohiohistory.org.
The Campus Martius and Ohio River Museums are two of 58 sites administered by the Ohio Historical Society. The Ohio Historical Society is a nonprofit organization that serves as the state's partner in preserving and interpreting Ohio's history, archaeology and natural history. Visit us at: www.ohiohistory.org.
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