The Journey West Children’s Gallery is divided into four zones. With advance preparation, we can provide teachers with material suited to their specific curriculum. In The Journey West Children’s Gallery, reproductions of artifacts don’t sit on shelves and gather dust! Instead, they become hands-on props, as youngsters re-enact an amazing and challenging time in the nation’s history. Take a virtual tour now:

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Zone 1 - Setting Off Explores how settlers made the decision to leave their homes back east and pack their wagons in Independence, Missouri.

Zone 2 - Life Around the Wagon Discover the challenges of life on the move as settlers went West by wagon train.

Zone 3 - Unknown Horizons An opportunity to explore Native American cultures, hazards on the trail, such as extreme weather, fording flooded rivers, etc.

Zone 4 - A New Home Children learn about the hard work it took to carve a new home out of the wilderness.

The Journey West Children's Gallery > Virtual Tour

Zone 1 - Setting Off

Zone 2 - Life Around the Wagon

Zone 3 - Unknown Horizons

Zone 4 - A New Home