William S. Hart Museum Summertime Open House and Children's Event
Thursday, July 19, 2018 10am to 4pm
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24151 Newhall avenue
http://hartmuseum.orgThe William S. Hart Museum located in Hart Park in Santa Clarita will host a free summertime Open House for children. The Hart Mansion will be open for walk-throughs beginning at 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and shaded activities will be available for children on the back lawn and sun deck behind the Museum from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
The Open House walk-through format will provide children an opportunity to look at the inside of Hart’s 1927 hilltop mansion without having to stay through a formal tour. Docents will be stationed throughout the Museum to point out things used in the past that would be of interest to this age group. One such area is Hart’s phone room, complete with a 1928 Newhall phone directory and the wall phone, without a dial, which harkens back to the days where one had to be connected to a telephone operator.
In the living room, there will be touchable objects for children such as a bison pelt, steer horns, a branding iron, and cowboy chaps. Cowboy John will be on hand to help children lasso Bessie, the Museum’s Outreach Program’s calf prop.
Several crafting activities for children will be held behind Hart’s Mansion. His tree shaded back lawn will have a story-time area featuring western and cowboy children’s books. Shade canopies will be on the sun deck to cover a children’s craft area. One sun deck activity will be making paper sack puppets and a puppet theater children can use to put on a show.
The Park’s barnyard, with their new alpacas, will be open, as well as the picnic ground for meals or relaxation.
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