Due to COVID-19, the Old Barracks Museum in Trenton will not be hosting its annual “Tavern Night,” which has been the primary fundraising event for its educational programs.
Instead, the museum will host a virtual “telethon” of video content to be streamed via Facebook Live and Zoom on Saturday, Oct. 10, starting at 1 p.m.
The content “will range from historical to hysterical,” performed by staff, volunteers and friends of the Old Barracks. Throughout the telethon, donations will be solicited and collected via Facebook donations and PayPal to help support the educational programming.
One such program will be a new “Connecting to the Revolution.”
In a normal year, nearly 10,000 students visit the Old Barracks Museum on field trips. This year, on-site field trips are going to be replaced with “Connecting to the Revolution,” a selection of seven live virtual field trip programs mixing live and pre-recorded video. Students will be able to ask questions and interact with historical Interpreters.
The Old Barracks Museum closed its doors in March as a precautionary measure to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, and reopened with capacity restrictions and mask requirements on July 2. During the closure, and extending beyond it, museum staff has presented virtual presentations related to the history of the 18th century on Facebook Live, with hundreds of viewers for each program.
Old Barracks Museum in Trenton has established a virtual class field trip titled "Connecting with the Revolution."barracks.org
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