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Scouting Merit Badges that can be Earned at the Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum
Email the museum: museum@toyandtrain.com.

There are several scouting merit badges which you can either earn at the Toy Museum, or that we can assist you with. Below is the information on our next series of Boy Scout Railroading Merit Badge programs. Boy Scouts who attend one of these programs will complete everything needed to attain that badge in the one day session.

For the Junior Girl Scouts, we can help you earn your "Toymaker" Merit Badge! If you check your requirements for this badge, you can accomplish (#2) Toys Around the World, (#3) Toys Through History, and (#8) Toy Safety, all during a visit to the Toy Museum! We can also guide the scouts through the creation of a "scavenger hunt" for the museum during their visit, which would satisfy the requirement (#7) Design an Educational Game! Then your troop can return home, do the crafts based requirements (making some toys), and complete the badge!

We can also help with the "Museum Discovery" badge for the Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts.
   
The first troop to earn their Railroading Merit Badge with us, in 2000


Our 2008 Boy Scout Railroading Merit Badge Program format:


The Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum will again put on their popular Boy Scout Railroading Merit Badge Program for 2008! The program offers scouts the opportunity to learn about real and model railroading in an all day session that qualifies them to receive their Railroading Merit Badge.

We offer an all day session, during which time you will complete ALL of the requirements to earn the Railroading Merit Badge. We have TWO sessions scheduled during 2008, on Saturday, January 5, 2008 and Saturday March 29, 2008. We will limit each session to about 30 attendees, so please get your reservation in SOON!

The session runs from 9 AM to 4 PM. We start PROMPTLY at 9 AM, so please don't be late! Cost is $8.00 per attendee, and MUST be paid in advance (this includes the merit badge session, plus a tour of the museum and the Wheeling caboose at the end of the day; you or your troop leader will have to pick up the actual badges, however).

Several of our scout troops who have come from outside of Wheeling have turned this into a camping trip as well! If you want to inquire about camping while here to earn your merit badge, call the Wheeling Boy Scout Office at (304) 277-2660. They have a campground on G.C. & P. Road here in Wheeling, not too far from the museum, and can help you reserve a slot!

You should bring your own bag lunch (there is a soda machine onsite, if you want to purchase a drink here); also, you will need to bring your merit badge registration card ("blue card") to the session! A map & directions to the museum can be found at the museum website, www.ToyAndTrain.com .

To reserve YOUR spot, or if you have any additional questions, call Museum Curator Allan Miller at the museum at (304) 242-8133, email your inquiries to the museum at museum@toyandtrain.com, OR print out and send in the following information with a non-refundable check (made out to Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum) for your group's registration fee ($8.00 per scout; no fee for accompanying troop leaders):

Troop Leader:_____________________________

Troop Number & City: _____________________________________

Phone Number for Contact: (______)__________________________

Number of Scouts Attending ________________

Date of Session Attending _______________________

Please send this completed form, along with your registration fee, to:

Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum
144 Kruger Street
Wheeling, WV 26003




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