Word Puzzle
Unscramble the Museum Words
Use each clue to put the letters in the correct order.
Choose Your Experience
Select a Learning Path
Each pathway changes the reading level, questions, and activities.
Junior Curator Mission
Harlem Needs Your Help
I’m your student museum guide. Seven pieces of Harlem’s story are waiting to be recovered. Complete one mission in each gallery, collect all seven Story Keys, and unlock the museum’s final Story Vault.
Your role: Junior CuratorInvestigate carefully, respond thoughtfully, and protect the historical story.
0 of 2 challenges completed
Bonus Challenge Arcade
Crack the Code. Find the Way.
Complete both optional challenges to earn the Harlem History Solver badge. These activities do not change your seven Story Keys or passport progress.
Harlem Maze
Guide the Curator to the Golden Star
Move through the open streets. Use the arrow keys while the maze is selected, or use the direction buttons.
The curator is ready at the maze entrance.
Bonus Badge Earned
Harlem History Solver
You solved the word puzzle and completed the Harlem maze.
Artifact Discovery Case
Select an Object to Investigate
Open each representative artifact to examine historical evidence, answer a close-looking question, and visit an authoritative source.
Word to Know
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Junior Curator Mission
Recover a Story Key
Answer Coach: Open-ended responses are checked for completeness, relevance, and explanation, not one exact wording.
Gallery 02 of 07
Gallery 02 · Writers and Poets
Words That Changed America
Enter two connected rooms to meet seven influential writers and investigate how rhythm, imagery, identity, and voice shaped Harlem Renaissance literature.
Artifact Discovery Case
Investigate the Writer’s Desk
Select each representative artifact to learn how writing reached readers during the Harlem Renaissance.
Junior Curator Mission · Voice Key
Recover the Voice Key
Investigate the Writers’ Hall or Poetry Studio. Use what you discover to explain how Harlem Renaissance writers made Black experiences, ideas, and creativity heard.
Answer Coach: Open-ended responses are checked for completeness, relevance, and explanation, not one exact wording.
0 of 7 exhibits opened
Gallery 02 · Room A
The Writers’ Hall
Select an exhibit portrait to discover the writer’s life, literary roles, major works, contribution, vocabulary, and your pathway question.
0 of 4 ideas explored
Gallery 02 · Room B
The Poetry Studio
Study four building blocks of poetry. The sample lines are original museum examples, not quotations from published poems.
Choose a concept above to begin.
Create
Write Four Original Lines
Junior Curator Passport
My Harlem Renaissance Mission
Each completed gallery mission earns one passport stamp and one Story Key.
Final Junior Curator Experience
The Story Vault Is Open
You recovered seven connected parts of the Harlem Renaissance story. Migration helped communities grow. Writers shaped language. Musicians transformed sound. Artists created new images. Performers commanded stages. Leaders organized ideas. Their influence continues.
The history is not a collection of separate rooms. It is one connected cultural movement.
Your Final Contribution
Write Your Junior Curator Statement
Complete this idea: “I will carry Harlem’s legacy forward by…”
