Museum learning day at the Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw was a busy day earlier this week.

They had 20 stations inside the museum for kids from kindergarten to grade 6 to do, with the help of community volunteers.

Karla Rasmussen, education and programs coordinator, explains what was going on at the museum.

“It’s a great day of hands-on demonstrations and activities that the kids get to take in,” she said. “Most of the time when you’re in a museum, most things are behind barriers or behind glass and you’re not allowed to touch. Today, we’ve kind of brought out those things you’re allowed to touch.

Rasmussen explained what kids from kindergarten to Grade 6 were able to see at Museum Learning Day.

“Some of our stations include using a typewriter,” she said. “That’s a very foreign sort of thing to a lot of people nowadays, so they get a chance to try that out. Writing with pen and ink, again, it’s one of those forgotten skills. And churning butter, we take out some of our heritage butter churns, and the students get to try what that would taste like. We’ve also got things like blacksmithing going on.”

About 350 kids from schools all over the area came to the museum for a solar telescope, some aspects of Metis history, and the history of the Sask Air Ambulance Service.

“It’s something that’s really grown for us,” she said. “This is the most students we’ve had since I’ve worked here at the museum. We are approaching 350 students, with close to 60-70 chaperones and teachers as well.”

Rasmussen said it's the farthest-reaching program they've run in the last three years.

She said they couldn't have had a day like this without the volunteers from the community.