History Headquarters Interactive Family Gallery Tours Saturdays

601 South Gay Street,Knoxville TN 37902

11 September, 2021

Description

Unlock the past at History Headquarters, an interactive gallery for families and children at the Museum of East Tennessee History. History Headquarters features interactive activities that encourage you to engage with East Tennessee history and culture through investigation, discovery, and play. In History Headquarters you can: Explore mystery boxes that hold clues to famous Tennesseans starting with the 1700s.Trace photography from its beginnings in the 1800s to modern digital images, and make your own stop-motion movie.Learn about artists and craftspeople including doll makers, basket and cloth weavers, and quilters. Then you can try it yourself!Create your own characters and put them on stage in the Story Forest.See yourself in the past through an interactive mirror! Then, after you leave, you’ll know how to use the skills you learned in HHQ to begin exploring the past.For families larger than 6 people, please call 865-215-8830.