Morning Call: History at Home: Bethlehem’s Historic Museums & Sites offers programming to keep people learning

While you and the family are stuck inside, you can take the opportunity to learn some local history.

Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites is offering new online content daily. You’ll find photos, info and more for all ages.

Here’s some of what they have:

Bethlehem Back When Photographs

Look back through history at daily photos from Bethlehem, spanning decades and capturing moments, big and small, in the lives of city residents. The images taken by Bethlehem Steel photographers encompass portraits, street views, and landscapes. Glimpse day-to-day life in the images compiled from the Bethlehem Steel Archives in these daily social media posts @historicbeth

Free Sundays At Home E-Blast

Every Sunday, Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites sends a resource to keep kids entertained at home with engaging activities, crafts, and videos including career corner videos interviewing local professionals in design-related industries such as hair and makeup stylist, music producer, apparel artists and more; links to story-time programs for kids; spotlights highlighting artifacts in the HBMS Collection; crafts and activities that can be completed at home with household supplies such as coffee filters, cardboard, and plastic bags; and coloring pages of Historic Bethlehem sites.

Bag Lunch With Ilene Wood

Get your fashion fix with this daily, weekday lunchtime series, published at noon Monday-Friday. Collector and handbag historian Ilene Wood invites viewers into her home for a show and tell of handbags from her collection that are not currently on show to the public in the “PURSEonality: A Stylish Handbag History Exhibition.”

Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites Blog

Dig deeper into historical topics on the HBMS Blog, updated bi-weekly. Learn about how Bethlehem’s residents in the 1800s would have stayed healthy and fit when stuck indoors, unearth lost or forgotten parts of Bethlehem’s history and read interviews with the many talented artists and creative professionals who collaborate with HBMS to offer workshops, exhibitions, and programs.

Info: historicbethlehem.org