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Welcome to The Renaissance Connection, the Allentown Art Museum's interactive educational web site. With the simple click of a mouse button, travel 500 years into the past to discover many Renaissance innovations revealed through the Allentown Art Museum's Samuel H. Kress Collection of European art. Be a patron of the arts.

An all new and richly engaging website for classrooms, Teaching with Brian Selznick, launches today with a virtual field trip to the American Museum of Natural History, the setting for Selznick's newest bestselling children's book, Wonderstruck. The virtual field trip, which is also available in closed caption, is hosted by Selznick and museum president Ellen V. Futter, and takes students on a tour through three exhibits in the museum: the Wolf Diorama, the Ahnighito Meteorite, and the Giant Anopheles Mosquito, all prominently featured in Wonderstruck. Students will also learn about the museum's history, exhibits, and collections from a museum curator, an exhibitions manager, and a senior scientist. Paired with the virtual field trip are activities for each stop on the tour to help students and teachers further explore the subject matter through science, language arts, social studies and art resources and activities. Additionally, the new Teaching with Brian Selznick site includes classroom resources for The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Selznick's Caldecott Award-winning book and the basis for the celebrated film, Hugo, by Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese. http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/13/4119341/new-teaching-with-brian-selznick.html

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