2022 OREGON SPRING BREAK PROGRAMS
MARCH 21-25, 2022
EDU Labs
CRMM’s EDU Labs offer even more hands-on opportunities to learn about maritime history. These 15-30 minute labs feature activities like baking hardtack, crafting sailor’s valentines out of seashells, and making miniature working models of Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
MARCH 21-25, 2022
EDU Labs
CRMM’s EDU Labs offer even more hands-on opportunities to learn about maritime history. These 15-30 minute labs feature activities like baking hardtack, crafting sailor’s valentines out of seashells, and making miniature working models of Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
Scrimshaw: The Art of the Sailor
10:00-11:00 AM Daily
Ford/Kern Room
Join the Education Department this spring break to learn how sailors onboard
whaling ships spent their free time! Visitors will carve their own scrimshaw designs into “whalebone” and take home a one-of-a-kind souvenir from their time at the museum.
Bake Your Own Hardtack
2:00-3:00 PM Daily
Ford/Kern Room
Hardtack was an important food for sailors traveling on long voyages. In this hands-on
baking demonstration, visitors will learn how to make their own hardtack!
Visitors of all ages will leave this program with their own homemade biscuits.
EDU Cart
The Columbia River Maritime Museum’s Education Cart is a hands-on, mobile experience that encourages visitors to use sight, touch, smell, and hearing to explore the Columbia River’s rich maritime history.
Early Trading History
11:00 AM-12:00 PM & 1:00 PM-2:00 PM Daily
Explore the many resources available to people living on the Columbia River during the 1800s and highlights goods that represent the maritime fur trade network between the Americas, Asia, and Europe. This is an interactive opportunity for visitors of all ages and abilities to engage with the museum’s galleries.
The Columbia River Maritime Museum’s Education Cart is a hands-on, mobile experience that encourages visitors to use sight, touch, smell, and hearing to explore the Columbia River’s rich maritime history.
Early Trading History
11:00 AM-12:00 PM & 1:00 PM-2:00 PM Daily
Explore the many resources available to people living on the Columbia River during the 1800s and highlights goods that represent the maritime fur trade network between the Americas, Asia, and Europe. This is an interactive opportunity for visitors of all ages and abilities to engage with the museum’s galleries.
Saturday Rope Making
(to resume early 2022)
Join our volunteer Kenny each Saturday from 11-1 where he will be doing what has done every Saturday for 25 years,
teaching our visitors how to make rope the old fashioned way. Each group gets to keep the rope they make.
