Grants to fund free field trips to Texarkana museums

November 11, 2019 at 6:11 p.m. | Updated November 11, 2019 at 6:14 p.m.

by Karl Richter

Jamie Simmons, curator of the Texarkana Museums System, motions with her hands how she wants the pipe-cleaner animation to move Friday. Jan. 13, 2017, at Discovery Place Interactive Museum. Workers at Discovery Place learned how to assemble and operate a stop-motion animation studio on loan from The Arkansas Discovery Network.
Jamie Simmons, curator of the Texarkana Museums System, motions with her hands how she wants the pipe-cleaner animation to move Friday. Jan. 13, 2017, at Discovery Place Interactive Museum. Workers at Discovery Place learned how to assemble and operate a stop-motion animation studio on loan from The Arkansas Discovery Network.

TEXARKANA - Fourth-graders have the chance to visit a Texarkana museum free of charge, thanks to an Arkansas nonprofit.

According to a news release, the Arkansas Community Foundation and the Texarkana Museums System are underwriting a program called Passports for Museums, which will award up to 750 students and chaperones free field trips to any of the system's four properties: the Museum of Regional History, the Ace of Clubs House, the P.J. Ahern Home and Discovery Place Interactive Museum.

Grants are available for teachers at schools with a federal free/reduced lunch ratio of at least 65%. Funded field trips can be scheduled for January through May of 2020.

Applications for Passports for Museums are open until Dec. 15. To apply, visit TexarkanaMuseums.org/Passports4Museums. For more information, contact 903-793-4831 or [email protected].

The Arkansas Community Foundation supports and partners with charitable programs statewide.

"Since 1976, we've provided more than $261 million in grants and partnered with thousands of Arkansans to help them improve our neighborhoods, our towns and our entire state," the foundation's website, arcf.org, states.

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