DBRL Now Satellite Resource Center for St. Louis Art Museum

Above: Touchable objects in the Ancient Mediterranean World kit include a head of Zeus, a spear point, a scarab, an Egyptian cat sculpture and a ceramic oil lamp. Below: Each kit includes books, posters, slides and other teaching materials.

The Daniel Boone Regional Library is now circulating educational art kits as part of a newly-formed partnership with the St. Louis Art Museum. As one of four satellite resource centers in Missouri, DBRL now checks out these museum “touch kits” to interested individuals, teachers and groups.

Each kit includes replicas of art objects and artifacts which can be handled and looked at up close, as well as slide kits, posters, books and either audiocassettes or videos. DBRL has touch kits covering the following themes: American Indian art, American Colonial art, American Folk art, American Westward Movement, African art, the Ancient Mediterranean World and a preschool art access kit. The kits are available for a three-week check-out period by calling the Outreach Department located in the Columbia Public Library at 1-800-324-4806 or by sending an e-mail to Outreach.

This expanded distribution of the museum's resources through community partnerships is intended to strengthen arts education programs, increase awareness of the visual arts and broaden the audience for the museum's collection.

The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the country's leading art museums with more than 100 galleries and a collection of more than 30,000 art treasures from ancient times to the present. The museum also houses Richardson Memorial Library, the largest public center for the history and documentation of art in the central Midwest. The St. Louis Art Museum is located in St. Louis' Forest Park at 1 Fine Arts Drive. Learn about upcoming exhibits and events at the museum on its Web site: www.slam.org.