Celebrate the end of the school year and the arrival of summer at Genesee Country Village & Museum during Kids Free Week.
Starting Tuesday, June 26 through Sunday, July 1, all kids 17 and under will be admitted free to the museum.
During that week, there will be a special focus on youth activities throughout the Historic Village, from games – including some little-known today – to gatherings and activities a 19th-century youngster would have experienced.
Young visitors can also test a two-man saw and other long-ago chores like stoking fires, carrying wood and grating kitchen spices.
In addition, there’s the museum’s new lambs, baby pigs and the powerful oxen team to meet as well as a 19th-century classroom to attend and a cooper to chat with as he crafts wooden buckets. Kids can punch a tin design, see how they would have been instructed to behave in the 1800s and be amazed at Professor Lowe’s “magic gas.”
There are nature trails to hike and a gallery with historic clothing and a canine exhibit to explore.
On Saturday, June 30, environmental conservation officer Fay A. Fuerch, the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s first female dog handler, will discuss how she works with investigators and her dog Handley to track down lost hunters, fugitives and illegally hunted game left behind by poachers. (Handley can detect shell casings as well as venison and bear carcasses, whether left in the open or stashed in a freezer.)
On Saturday and Sunday there will also be historic baseball played by 1868 rules at Silver Base Ball Park, the only recreated 19th-century baseball park in the country.
The museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $18 adults/$15 seniors/$10 youth. GCV&M members and children 3 and under are free.
For more information, visit the museum website www.gcv.org or call 585-294-8218.
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