Got a Box? Make a Museum
Right now, tactile learning in school is difficult, but exploring a passion at home can fill the void.
Ingrid Abbott, 11, could not find a butterfly museum near her Utah home, so she created her own out of a cardboard box.Credit.Ben Abbott
By Richard Morgan
Jan. 9, 2021
The main thing to know about Ingrid Abbott, 11, a fifth grader in the modest mountain town of Orem, Utah, is that she is really into butterflies.
She dressed as a monarch butterfly for Halloween last year. She checks books out of her local library about butterflies. And she watches National Geographic documentaries about them. She wishes there were a butterfly museum in her town, but Orem doesn’t have one. So Ingrid corrected the situation: She built her own Museum of Butterflies out of a cardboard box.