We Educate People About Education
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Your Baby's Amazing Brain
The exhibition, Your Baby’s Amazing Brain is a 48-foot, traveling, walk-thru, interactive mobile exhibition designed to showcase the importance of developing minds in babies, infants and toddlers from birth up to age 5. |
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What We Do
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MOTAL Is Honored . . . Again
Orange County Community Icon Medallion
MOTAL Honored at Awards Gala:
This past week, The Museum of Teaching and Learning was honored at an awards gala held at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum. Our museum was a nominee for the JPMorganChase Community Icon award in the not-for-profit category. Representing MOTAL, Treasurer Mary Deming and President/CEO Greta Nagel enjoyed a delicious dinner, met many delightful people, and received this medallion. Alas, the winner in our category was United Way of Orange County. This was the fifth annual event to honor extraordinary leaders and organizations who “demonstrate business growth and a steadfast dedication to making Orange County a better place to live and prosper.” In addition to the nonprofit category, winners were named in three other business areas: small-medium, veteran-serving, and philanthropy. Our Organization’s Mission: MOTAL has been a charitable nonprofit since 2004, with its origins at California State University, Long Beach, before it became an independent nonprofit in 2009. The museum intends to inform and inspire students and adults “from age 9 to 109.” Our main endeavor has been to create traveling exhibitions hosted by institutions in Orange County and beyond. Venues include museums, libraries, federal courthouses, colleges and universities, community centers, school district facilities, and the state capitol. In addition, MOTAL collects and displays artifacts, publishes weekly articles, trains university interns, puts on interesting speaker events, and produces podcasts. At the start of 2025, our museum opened its doors at a brick-and-mortar nonprofit facility in Fullerton. The gallery and event space have brought in volunteers and guests who enjoy our regular events. They have themes such as “How To,” “Who Knew?,” and “Celeb Salons,” in which inspiring speakers from diverse walks of life reveal their accomplishments and tell how they learned to do what they do. Proud Accomplishments, Including Awards and Accolades: Visitors to the MOTAL gallery often comment on the array of framed certificates that cover the entry wall. MOTAL won a very prestigious national award for its excellent exhibition that tells how our nation’s school desegregation began in Orange County, California. That work, called A Class Action, shares details of the influential case, Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District et al. It has traveled to 18 venues in the West so far and is currently on display at the First Street US Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. Founder Nagel has also been honored for her work by several organizations, including the DAR Community Service Award and Fullerton’s Women in Leadership award. Local Impact and Involvement: One way our museum measures impact is by collecting evaluations from visitors. As a result, we know that people are impressed by the high quality of our exhibitions. Over and over, guests tell us their experience was awesome, informative, interesting, excellent, amazing, and inspiring. Our most recent exhibition, the seventh, Your Baby’s Amazing Brain, travels to host locations in a 48-foot mobile that has 15 electronic, interactive activities inside that can be accessed in four different languages. Guests have found it stunning, intriguing, and worthwhile. We also know that people come back to our museum and bring their friends. In addition, we are proud of our faithful board members, dedicated volunteers, and longstanding supporters—dozens of whom have provided generous donations year after year. Additional Details: Much more could be said about a nonprofit organization that, at age 22, has been a rather longstanding success. Over a third of our nation’s nonprofits fold before they reach their tenth anniversary. The longevity of a 501(c)(3) like MOTAL is due to the cooperation and collaboration of many individuals. Host institutions are true partners, sharing their facilities, staff, ideas, and enthusiasm. Finally, dozens of interns have “learned by doing” at MOTAL and are now in positions of influence in museums and institutions across the nation. MOTAL is, indeed, fortunate to have had so much people-power. Won’t YOU please consider becoming one of our people? MOTAL is proud to have volunteers and supporters from all walks of life. Just reply to this email, and we can talk. 
Honor Wall at MOTAL.
We educate people about education.
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Your Baby's Amazing Brain 
The high-tech mobile museum
Your Baby's Amazing Brain 
MOTAL Creates Traveling Exhibitions
that are leased by institutions such as museums, libraries, schools, and universities. If you would like more information A Class Action:
The Grassroots Struggle for School Desegregation in California Traveling Exhibition 
We also have a Hanging Version!
Two Roads, One Journey: Education in China and the U.S Traveling Exhibition 
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