The start of Xploration Summer Camps here at the museum are fast
approaching. Campers can take week long classes in archaeology,
creepy crawlies, the science behind Harry Potter, dinosaurs,
robots, crime scene investigation and much more. In years past
we’ve had a camp class called “Photo Safari” that was always
really popular. This year we have decided to take one of the
kids’ favorite aspects of “Photo Safari” and added new
activities and topics — thus, a new camp is born! This year,
it’s “Freeze Frame”! Andrea G., one of our fabulous Summer Camp
teachers and a former ExxonMobil Community Summer Jobs program
intern for me in Education Collections, is a huge photography
buff and she is using her wealth of darkroom knowledge to put
together some new projects for the “Freeze Frame” campers this
summer! We’ll be traveling back in time to experiment with some
of the earliest photographic processes, including learning about
albumen prints – which originally used eggs! Using our own
darkroom, we’ll build pinhole c