Teachers’ Night at the Durham Museum
Omaha, Nebraska
Friday, October 8, 2010, 5 to 8 pm

The Durham Museum warmly welcomes educators of all subjects and grades to visit The Durham and see the vast education resources the region has to offer. This festive, after-hours open house, gives teachers a chance to hear what’s new at The Durham and other regional institutions. Highlighting this years’ event will be educators from the Smithsonian Institution presenting lessons from the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibition Dig It! The Secrets of Soil. Participants will enjoy a cocktail reception, live entertainment and take home free classroom-ready materials and information about field trips and programs available to students.

Durham Museum Teachers’ Night is sponsored by the Peter Kiewit Foundation, Cox Communications, First Nebraska Educators Credit Union and the Metropolitan Utilities District.

Registration
Teachers’ Night is free but requires registration. Online registration has closed, but walk-up registrations will be accepted at the door.

Directions
Durham Museum is located in Omaha's Historic Old Market at 801 South 10th Street on the 10th Street bridge. The Museum can be accessed from both 10th Street and Leavenworth Street. The Museum has a two-level parking deck that is free to all visitors.

Presentations
Smithsonian presentations for this event were specially geared to compliment “Dig It! The Secrets of Soil” from the National Museum of Natural History. In addition, teachers will have the opportunity to collect a broad selection of innovative, classroom-ready Smithsonian resources and learn about the many other ways they can bring the Smithsonian into their classrooms.