12 Democracy Project Teens Trained to be Student Docents
759 students and adults toured the exhibit
Docents, or Tour Guides, Led 59 Tours
Photos provided by the Miles City Public Library
The Democracy Project teens in Miles City have trained to become docents for a special exhibition from the Anne Frank Museum that is touring Montana. Twelve teens provided 59 tours serving 759 students and adults at the Miles City Public Library, the high school, the hospital and the Miles Community College library. They also served 120 rural students from Wibaux (another Democracy Project site) Ekalaka, Terry, and Plevna. The exhibit includes reflections on civic responsibility, tolerance and history. Teens are using art and poetry to process the emotions brought up by the exhibition.
From the front page of the Miles City Star on Jan 6, 2026:
The Miles City Public Library is hosting a major historical exhibit this week that can be visited right now. Currently open, the library presents “Anne Frank: A History for Today,” a traveling exhibit that highlights the life of Frank and the history surrounding the Holocaust.
The exhibit is sponsored by the University of Carolina’s Anne Frank Center and is supported by the Democracy Project of Humanities Montana. Local students have also volunteered to guide visitors through the exhibit, providing key information and helping share the infamous story of the ordeals Frank and her family faced in the 1940’s.”
The Anne Frank Center in Columbia, South Carolina, provided the educational panels and the training. The exhibition will travel to several more stops in Montana in the coming months including Billings, Bozeman, Whitehall, and Missoula.
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