The Souris Valley Museum is offering a more diversified fleet of camps for youths this summer.
Traditionally the museum has held two camps during the summer, with a Pioneer Day Camp and a Discovery Day Camp offered on multiple occasions. Both those camps would take place in the afternoon.
But now they will have a greater number of camps, and camps will take place in the morning or the afternoon.
Pioneer Day Camp is back this year, as the first session ran from July 3-6. A second round of the camp will be from Aug. 7-10.
New for this year is Little Time Travellers, which ran from July 3-5, and will happen again Aug. 7-9. Due to the popularity of the camp, morning and afternoon sessions were offered.
Settling the West Camp and Superhero Camp will be July 9-13 and Aug. 20-24. Energize Me and Archaeology Camp will be July 16-20 and July 30-Aug. 3.
Dinosaur Camp will be July 23-26, Aug. 13-16 and Aug. 20-23, Recycling Camp will be July 23-27, Estevan: My Home will be Aug. 13 and 14, and Fashion Camp will be Aug. 16 and 17.
“We have quite a few interesting camps at the museum, for a variety of ages, from three all the way up to 15,” said director-curator Mark Veneziano.
The Pioneer Day Camp is a popular camp that they wanted to retain, but they wanted to try some other camps.
Little Time Travellers and the Dinosaur Camp have proven to be the most popular and filled up quickly. Some spaces will be available in some of the other camps.
Capacity for a camp is 13 children. The museum is still accepting registrations for some of its camps, and will continue to do so until the date of the camp.
Children who attend the camps enjoy outdoor activities, crafts, games and history lessons. During the Settling the West Camp, the youth will learn the process for building a home.
“It’s all sorts of different things going on. For the dinosaur camp, we have a dinosaur tracking game. For our recycling camp, we’re going be creating new things out of old things. There’s a lot stuff happening, and summer fun out at the museum.”
Veneziano said they wanted to grow the summer programming, and people in the community have been asking to have more at the museum.
