School Lunch - School Tour

Description

This tour will take visitors through our newest exhibit, Lunchtime, as we explore the history and development of school lunch. Visitors will learn about the complicated relationship between food scientists, the government, and the public throughout the last two hundred years as ideas about nutrition and education have evolved.

Does school lunch affect student performance? How did innovations in agricultural science lead to the national school lunch program? What challenges do school lunch advocates face today? And why do we have guinea pigs to thank for our understanding of basic nutrition? We will answer all these questions and more!

In addition to exploring the Lunchtime exhibit, this tour will also offer an interactive portion! Our museum educators have chosen special artifacts from our handling collection to complement the exhibit tour. Visitors will get to touch these artifacts, examine them in detail, and draw connections between their own experiences of school lunch and this fascinating facet of food history.

Lunchtime opens to the public on September 27.

We can accommodate up to 20 individuals per tour group with a minimum group size of eight. Larger groups will be split to stagger their tour times since our spaces are relatively small.