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Come here to start the tour!

Welcome to the HSRAA Virtual Museum!

History of the HSRAA Virtual Museum

The HSRAA Virtual Museum (VM) was created in 2008 to chronicle the rich history of Horseshoe Scout Reservation (HSR). Many of the HSRAA alumni don’t regularly make it down to camp, nor does HSR have a physical museum on its premises, so the HSRAA VM allows for HSR alumni to visit – virtually – and see all that has happened since they last camped there.

The origins of the Virtual Museum date back to the beginning of HSRAA in 2000, when ideas for doing a VM started getting thrown around on the HSRAA board. In 2007, eventual museum curators Andrew Coe and David Woodward started toiling by collecting and digitizing artifacts – Coe was primarily responsible for providing the museum hierarchy and designing the floor layout 3D models (as seen in the screenshots above) while Woodward worked on the museum code. The first iteration of the VM opened in November 2008.

Since the creation of the museum, there have been 13,000 artifacts added to the museum – videos, pictures, PDFs, narratives, records, memorabilia – you could get lost in here for hours, and we hope you do! There is so much to see!

Navigation

I. Hierarchy

The HSRAA Virtual Museum has the following hierarchy:

Floors > Rooms > Exhibits > Displays

Each Exhibit is its own page with displays contained there. Details can be found at every level of the hierarchy, including displays.

Details (click to expand)

Floor / Room / Exhibit / Display Details

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Expanding these will give you more information about the floor, room, exhibit, or display. Not all displays have details.

II. Exhibits

A. Header Information

1. See Also

The appearance of this in an exhibit, room, or display lets you know there is related information. Click the button to expand it for more information, and then click the red HERE to follow that link. Try the button below to see it in action.

2. Tour Stop

The appearance of this in the exhibit lets you know that this exhibit is part of one or more tours. If you see this in an exhibit, you can click the “Tour Stop” button to go to the bottom of the exhibit that shows all of the tours and which stop you are on (green circle) in a particular tour.

B. Display Links

Display links show you a snapshot of all the displays in the exhibit. Below is an example of display links: they will be clickable in an actual exhibit and take you to the display. Unless explicitly Cub Scout content, the display link buttons will be red in color or green color (if there are no details for the display). Cub Scout content will be blue.

Displays that have multiple artifacts types will display two or more icons, as seen below with the “Scouts BSA Artifacts” example.

1. Icons

The following are a list of icons used to introduce and link to the displays in each exhibit. Icons that have a black image on a white background denote a display has image gallery content that is sortable and/or searchable. A red photograph icon indicates a special art gallery.

Icon	Description	Icon	Description
	Photographs		Audio (MP3 format)
	Videos (MP4 format)		Lists of Records
	Documents (PDF format)		Maps
	Memorabilia		Jigsaw Puzzle
	Narratives

2. Hover

If you hover over the icon of a display link, if there is information about that display it will appear as a hovering dialog box. Note: most displays have information about the display. Hover on the example below to see it in action.

III. Displays

A. Display Headers

Cub Scout content will be displayed with a blue header and Tour Stops will be displayed with a gold header. All other headings will be displayed as green.

Pictures

Cub Scout Videos

Tour Stops

B. Gallery Displays

The icon is found in top left of a gallery display and is used to link to the stand-alone gallery to be shown on its own page instead of with the rest of the exhibit. This icon is found particularly on galleries of especially large exhibits that may take some time to fully load. This can help the user view just the gallery that they want to see instead of waiting for the entire exhibit to load.

Picture Map

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Use this map to learn a little more about HSR locations and dive deep by clicking on the exhibits related to these locations!

Contributed by Andrew Coe

1928 Horseshoe Album

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Here is an introductory gallery focusing on the history of Camp Horseshoe.

These pictures were glued in to an old album amongst a bunch of miscellaneous photos at the Council Service Center in West Chester.  The pictures were most likely taken during the first Summer Camp at Horseshoe.  The photographer is unknown though some of the pictures have come to us by way of contributors like Rich Foot and J.B. Rettew III.

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Self-Guided Tours

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The tours below offer you a chance to look around the Virtual Museum at your own pace by selecting a focus that interests you! You can hop off the tour at any time, and each one has 20 stops.

Click the red circle for any of the tours to go to the first stop on your tour! At the “Tour Stops” section at the bottom of each exhibit, click the red circle to advance to the next stop! The green circle indicates your current stop.
Approximate times are based on reading or viewing every artifact on the tour.

Description: This tour explores some of the older history of Horseshoe Scout Reservation, from the beginning in 1928 to roughly the end of the 1960s.

Approximate Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

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Description: This tour explores some of the newer history of Horseshoe Scout Reservation, from the 1970s to today!

Approximate Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

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Description: This tour is for the museum patron who not only wants to look at a large cross-section of HSR history, but may also want to do some of their own research.

Approximate Time: 2 hours

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Description: This tour focuses completely on Cub Scouts – the facilities they use at HSR and the Cub Scout program offerings at HSR, along with a little history.

Approximate Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

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Description: This tour focuses on the HSR property – the buildings, the geography, the outdoor facilities, and the infrastructure – to give you a proper lay of the land!

Approximate Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

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Description: This tour gets you out of your seat and into the action of HSR activities – hiking, canoeing, climbing, marching, biking, and more!

Approximate Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

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Description: This tour shows you a little bit of everything! Call it miscellaneous, call it cornucopia, call it potpourri – just don’t call it boring!

Approximate Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

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Description: This tour allows you to relive memories if you were or are a HSR staff member – from memorabilia, staff listings, and unique exhibits that put the service and fun of being a staff member front and center!

Approximate Time: 1 hour 15 minutes