GRANTHAM, Pa. (May 10, 2007) — Students in third through fifth grades are invited to enroll in the Curator Club, a summer activity club at the Oakes Museum on Messiah College's Grantham campus.  Members of the Curator Club will attend six Saturday sessions between June 9 and August 18 where they will study everything from African animals and culture to fossils and geology to the truth about trash and recycling.  Each session will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the Oakes Museum.  The cost per child is $40.  For more information, call (717) 691-6082 or go to www.messiah.edu/oakes.

"Membership in the Curator's Club provides children with the opportunity to fuse science, art and history in a way that's fun and hands-on," says Ken Mark, director of the Oakes Museum.  The museum spans 10,000 square feet in the Jordan Science Center.  Within its walls are 40,000 specimens, including Smithsonian-quality African and North American mammals, bird eggs, seashells, minerals, insects and fossils.  The Oakes Museum houses the largest bird egg and African mammal collections in Pennsylvania.