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National Museum of Mexican Art - Citlalli Alaniz, Week 1

 Week 1 (July 1-July 7) 

Hi everyone! My internship started last week and I am an educational intern at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, helping with the ImaginARTE Summer Camp which is for children ages 7-12. Since summer camp started in late June, I quickly jumped in ready to help and get to know all the children. My first week consisted of 3 summer camp days and my story time session in that weekend. 

Summer camp quickly became accustomed to seeing me and receiving help distributing supplies, helping them, and supervising them during recess time. The summer camp's theme is based on making individual mini-museums to showcase the different aspects and components of museums. Each week focuses on a different component, my first week's theme was all about making sculptures and creating condition reports for the children's museum. The week concluded with the children making their sculptures and them being added to a sculpture garden that was previously made.   

Although the days seemed long, I enjoyed learning more about museum creation and conservation with them. My first week was definitely a learning experience but I'm happy to have gotten to know everyone and thrive within my favorite museum in the city. 


Here are the campers practicing their baile folklorico for their final project in week 4! They begin their day here with baile every day.


Here are the campers meeting the museum president and learning about the different artifacts in his office.


Story Time With a Young Ambassador

On Sunday, I led the story time with Thalía Estrada and read, "Spanish is the Language of My Family." Although it was our first time doing anything of that sort, we were quick learners and were able to keep the audience entertained and interested in the book. The turn out was pretty great and we were able to have good quality time with both the children and the families during and after the activity. Thalía and I left feeling really good, knowing that the families really enjoyed our time together! It was great to have a full circle experience after having attended my local library's story times for around 8 years of my life and now being able to experience reading to children during story time. 







Location: Chicago, IL, USA

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