The Alhambra Historical Society Museum offers a free Children’s Activity Guide to the Museum at 1550 West Alhambra Road in Alhambra.

The Guide is used by schools and Boy and Girl Scouts, and can be read before or picked up when the Museum is visited. Teachers, leaders and parents are encouraged to bring the children back so  that all the questions in the Guide can be answered. Some of the answers are in the museum and the others are in the Guide.

For example, one question asks “What was it like to be a doctor, firefighter or police officer in the 1900s?” The answer to this can be seen visually in the museum displays of items from these professions.

The Guide is not only an introduction to the Museum Inflatable Water Slide itself but also to the history of Alhambra. Such questions as “Why did Wilson name the city Alhambra?” and “What is the City Flower?” have their answers in the Guide.

The Guide was developed by Rosemarie Markus and Terri Cardinali with illustrations by Cardinali.

The Alhambra Historical Society Museum, 1550 West Alhambra Road at Bushnell in Alhambra, is open every Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m., and on the second and fourth Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. For more information call 626 300 8845.