Two Barnstable Schools Awarded Cape Cod 5, Heritage Museum Trust Award

Do you remember your first museum visit? Many of us experienced a museum for the first time while on a school field trip. Unfortunately, fewer children today are able to participate in field trips as financial pressures force schools to eliminate them.

Students of Barnstable-West Barnstable Elementary and Barnstable Early Learning Center will get a free ticket and ride to a Cape museum as a part of the Heritage Museums & Gardens and The Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust Award.

“We are so proud to be able to offer this scholarship to students all across the Cape, and to have a partner like the Cape Cod Five Charitable Foundation Trust  onboard to help present the cultural and life experiences that trips to Heritage can teach our youth is truly something special,” said Heritage Museums & Gardens Executive Director, Ellen Spear.

The Scholarship, established by a grant from the Bank’s Charitable Foundation Trust, will underwrite museum admission, program fees and round-trip transportation costs for the schools. The school groups will visit Heritage Museums & Gardens between April and June of this coming 2012 season. 

On the establishment of this scholarship, David B. Willard, Secretary of the Foundation, said, “What better way for students to understand the relevance and relationship of history to the present than to transport them to one of the premier destinations on all of Cape Cod, Heritage Museums & Gardens?”

This is the third round of scholarships offered by Heritage and The Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust since the program’s inception in the spring of 2010.

Information from a press release.