Rockford
Field Trips

The Anderson Japanese Gardens is an authentic Japanese Garden maintained by the highest standards with the intent to touch the souls of guests.

Step through a window through time at the Burpee Museum of Natural History! Popular tours include Fossils and Dinosaurs, Dynamite!, and the First People.

Interactive exhibits at the Discovery Center Museum cover electricity, weather, agriculture, color and light, and more. Enjoy playful learning at home with the museum’s virtual resources.

Learn about the primary immigrant groups that settled in southwest Rockford with a visit to the Ethnic History Museum. The six galleries dedicated to African American, Hispanic, Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, and Polish immigrants.

A visit to the Klehm Arboretum and Botanical Garden is one that is sure to delight the senses with 155-acres of beautifully landscaped gardens. There is something to be seen all year round.

Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens is the third largest conservatory in Illinois, offering an 11,000-square-foot plant exhibition area complete with water features, seating areas, and sculptures, all in a tropical plant setting.

The Rockford Art Museum offers a diverse collection, spanning portraits and landscapes by American masters to photography, outsider art, and contemporary paintings, lithography and glass.