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The DEA Museum supplied fingerprinting kits to the West Virginia State Museum’s educators. The kits can be used in youth and student programs accompanying visits to the Museum’s traveling exhibit.
What’s more fun: becoming a Junior Special Agent or practicing the science of fingerprinting? Student groups visiting the Museum’s traveling exhibit Drugs: Costs and Consequences can participate in both of these engaging programs.
The updated bilingual exhibit opened at the West Virginia State Museum in Charleston on September 7, 2022. Its artifacts, videos, interactive stations, and displays present the science behind drug addiction and the many costs of illegal drugs to American society and the world. Dramatic historical content frames current statistics and challenges, including the recent rise in fentanyl-related overdoses.
Drugs: Costs and Consequences inspires guests of all ages to make a difference. The DEA Museum works with on-site educators to provide tours and programs. Students and visitors can obtain free resources on addictive drugs and drug use prevention. The Museum prepares new educational materials for each venue to support youth and student tour groups. Additionally, West Virginians and other visitors can learn about statewide drug trends and DEA’s work in the region through a Local Story exhibit. With its thought-provoking content, the traveling exhibit, like the DEA Museum, encourages visitors to become Agents of Change by using the information and resources it offers in their communities.
Curator of Education Josh Edmundson provided staff at the West Virginia State Museum with kits for two popular Museum programs: a Junior Special Agent activity and a STEM-based exploration of fingerprinting. At the DEA Museum, younger visitors can earn a Junior Special Agent badge by completing word searches, letter scrambles, and other challenges to think like DEA agents. Now, youth and student groups visiting the traveling exhibit can participate, too.
