Girl Scouts of Western Ohio
Girl
Scout Museum
The Girl Scouts of Western Ohio operates a museum dedicated to the preservation of Girl Scout traditions and memorabilia. We invite you to visit our museum and participate in the one or more of the following.
Service Projects
Would your troop like to do a service project?
As you and your girls plan and schedule fall activities, please consider
doing a service project for your Girl Scout Council.
The GIRL SCOUT MUSEUM
has Endless Possibilities!
To set up your project call
Kelda at 1-800-962-7753 or 419-225-4085 ext. 37
Service
Project Ideas:
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Make Displays – Put together display boards and/or set up cabinet displays.
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Scrap-Booking – Donate photo scrapbooks and help put pictures from the Council archives together for the museum or help to sleeve Girl Scout leader magazines and shop catalogs.
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Museum Cleaning- Spend a few hours dusting, sweeping, or washing windows and glass cases at the Girl Scout museum
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Girl Scout Alumni Interviews- Contact women from your community who are or where Girl Scouts in the 1930’s-2007 interview them asking questions about their Girl Scout activities and create a story page to preserve Girl Scout Alumni’s personal Girl Scout stories and our Council history. (Remember to have the Girl Scout Alumni sign a release to use their picture and personal information in Girl Scout promotional and historical publications. before you begin the interview.)
As you develop your story pages, please include the following:
o Pictures of the alumni if possible
o Her name and include her address if possible
o Number of years in Girl Scouts
o Activities she participated in as a girl in girl Scouts and as an adult
o Types of awards she may have earned
o Positions she may have held as a Girl Scout adult
o If she has daughters and/or granddaughters in Girl Scouts
o Any other interesting Girl Scout stories
In making, your story pages please follow the following construction guidelines.
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Remember to use both the front and the back of your scrapbook pages
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Story pages should be 8 ˝ X11 on acid free paper
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If using glue make sure it is also acid free
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Please put your page in a plastic three-holed sheave for placement in a 3-holed notebook
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Make a Memory- Work by yourself or with the girls in your troop and/or the troops in your service area to create scrapbook pages. The Scrapbook page you create for each girl or troop should;
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Include pictures that explain what they enjoy most about Girl Scouts
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Tell who the girls and adults are in the pictures
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Please include statements of what Girl Scouting means to you and/ or short stories about your Girl Scout experience
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In making, your scrapbook pages please follow the following construction guidelines:
1. Remember to use both the front and the back of your scrapbook pages
2. Story pages should be 8 ˝ X11 on acid free paper
3. If using glue make sure it is also acid free
Programs 
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By request Girl Scout Museum Tour- Available to all age levels. Your tour will include seeing the museum displays, learning a few facts about Juliette Low, and seeing some of the old handbooks and try an insignia activities from the 1930-1960’s.
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Try-It, Badge, and other Girl Scout insignia- Check the Ridge Runner for the offerings available this season.
Adult
Volunteer Positions
~Tour guides
~Activity assistants
~Museum inventory and storage agents
~Interviewers to make contacts with community, friends and family members of
Girl Scout alumni
~Advisors for Girl Scout museum service projects.
Donate Past Girl Scout Items to the Girl
Scout Museum
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Girl Scout uniforms, badge sashes, or vest
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Girl Scout jewelry
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Girl Scout dolls
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Other Girl Scout items
All items donated become the property of the Girl Scout of Western Ohio
For information, contact Kelda at Girl Scouts of Western Ohio
Phone 1-419-225-4085 or 1-800-962-7753 ext. 37.
E-mail keldaheitkamp@girlscoutsofwesternohio.org
