The Missouri Historic Preservation Program (SHPO) has a full-time Preservation Educator on staff. The SHPO provides materials on historic architecture, national register properties, historic farms, community history, objects and artifacts, and historic sites. The Missouri SHPO offers annual teacher workshops on doing local history and researching heritage. A statewide curriculum "Finding Missouri: Our History and Heritage" is in development, and will serve middle school and junior high students and teachers. 

Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Historic Preservation Program
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, MO  65102
573-751-7959
FAX  573-526-2852

Some other agencies in Missouri providing heritage education services and materials include:

The Jackson County Historical Society provides workshops and materials for teachers using local history and heritage education in the classroom. Materials cover historic architecture, national register properties, historic farms, historic documents, community history, objects and artifacts, and historic sites. For more information, contact the Jackson County Historical Society.


Jackson County Historical Society
219 West Lexington
Independence, MO  64050
816-461-1897
FAX:  816-461-1510
Kit Bardwell, Education Director

The Landmarks Association provides in-school presentations to students, followed by a field trip to the downtown. The primary focus of this presentation is building materials, slides of building types, architectural styles, etc. and "preservation propaganda". This program, "What are Buildings Made Of?" also provides hands-on activities for the students.

Landmarks Association of St. Louis, Inc.
917 Locust Street 7th Floor
St. Louis, MO  63101-1413
314-421-6474

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