Listed below are a number links to viewable versions of printed materials available at Dickson Mounds Museum. These can be viewed online, printed, or downloaded.
Publications
Fieldnotes - Published quarterly by Friends of Dickson Mounds Museum.
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Other Publications
- The Living Museum, Volume 57, Number 1, Spring 1995 - A full issue of The Living Museum devoted to Dickson Mounds Museum.
- Indian Villages of the Illinois Country - This 1958 study by Wayne C. Temple brings together, from a wide variety of documentary sources, an excitingly vivid history of the major Indian tribes in Illinois up to the time of
their removal in 1818. Illinois State Museum, Scientific Papers, Vol. II, Part 2
Teachers Resources
Themed Discovery Educational Packets
- The Spirit of the Animals
- In Search of the Past
- Pottery - From Trash to Treasure
- Life From the Earth
Educational Resource Trunks
Dickson Mounds Museum offers for loan several Illinois Department of Natural Resources educational resource trunks. Supplement your classroom or home school experience with these trunks. Each trunk incorporates activities that are correlated to the Illinois Learning Standards.
Trunks may be reserved for two weeks and must be picked up and returned to the lender. There is no charge to borrow these trunks, although a refundable deposit may be requested.
Click here to view trunk topic details and content lists.
The Educational Resource Trunks are currently being housed at the Parlin-Ingersoll Library in Canton. Please contact 309-647-0328 for more information.
