The Children's Museum at Holyoke, Inc. offers a trio of programs through which youth can experience the Museum from an arts and humanities perspective. For the Museum Adventure Club, a range of activities, from papermaking to studies of architecture, are based on Museum exhibits and stimulate participants to use problem-solving skills. Youth ages 6-10 can join the Club, which runs 3 afternoons a week for 2 hours. The Junior Volunteers program is a way for youth, ages 10-17, to learn how a museum operates and to gain work experience. Volunteers work one shift a week, assisting visitors, demonstrating exhibits, facilitating workshops for young children and answering phones. Junior Volunteers showing motivation and dedication are selected to take part in the Junior Leadership Incentive Program. Participants must be 13 years old and available to meet every other week for leadership training conducted by Museum staff with the assistance of community partners. "Having a community partnership adds so much depth to the Program; the assistance from Merrill Lynch has been invaluable," says Program Director Amy Landry. Youth set their own goals in the Junior Volunteers program. They also have opportunities to represent the Museum at city-wide conferences and to apply for Museum jobs.