Massachusetts Field Trips

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Blue Man Group Boston

The Blue Men combine drumming with paint to create a rhythmic explosion of color in a show that offers discovery, laughter, and surprises! Blue Man Group Boston is the city’s biggest blast!

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School, High School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Self-Guided Activities, Guided Activities, Performances. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Homeschool, Family MASSACHUSETTS
BostonTEL - 617-542-6700 Read More

Boston Pizza Tours

Discover historic Boston slice by delicious slice! Boston Pizza Tours serves up fun and educational food tours, exploring the city’s oldest neighborhoods. Along the way, enjoy slices from Boston’s very best pizzerias.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family MASSACHUSETTS
BostonTEL - 855-487-4992 Read More

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum

Join Samuel Adams and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty in protest of King George’s unjust taxes at the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. Explore via virtual tours and the research library.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School, High School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Performances COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family MASSACHUSETTS
Boston
VIRTUALTEL - 866-955-0667 Read More

Boston University Events & Conferences

From Memorial Day through mid-August, Boston University opens its residence halls, allowing groups to utilize campus facilities for overnight stays, on-campus dining, and a range of educational activities.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Overnight Trips, Self-Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool MASSACHUSETTS
BostonTEL - 617-353-3520 Read More

Cape Ann Whale Watch

Cape Ann Whale Watch provides guaranteed whale sightings for every whale watching tour out to Stellwagen Bank, a national marine preserve about 12 miles off the coast of Gloucester.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool MASSACHUSETTS
GlousterTEL - 978-283-5110 Read More

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

The mission of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is to inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Self-Guided Activities, Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School MASSACHUSETTS
Brewster
Cape Cod/PlymouthTEL - 508-895-3867 Read More

Carousel Family Fun Center

Carousel Family Fun Center of Whitman offers a safe, clean, colorful, fun, and friendly environment. We offer roller skating, music, videos, Pattino’s Pisa Pizza, Treasure Chest redemption shops, and arcade games!

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family MASSACHUSETTS
Boston
Cape Cod/Plymouth
WhitmanTEL - 781-857-1286 Read More

Christodora, Manice Education Center

At Christodora’s Manice Education Center, nestled on 200 acres of land surrounded by Savoy Mountain State Forest, New York City school groups immerse themselves in outdoor, leadership, and environmental lessons through experiential activities.

GRADE LEVEL - Middle School, High School PROGRAM TYPE - Overnight Trips, Self-Guided Activities, Guided Activities COST - Fee, Financial Support GROUP TYPE - School MASSACHUSETTS
NEW YORK
New York CityTEL - 212-371-5225 Read More

Crab Apple Whitewater Rafting

Family operated since 1983, Crab Apple Whitewater Rafting is the largest whitewater outfitter in New England. Full and half-day trips range from Mild to Wild on the Deerfield River in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Overnight Trips, Guided Tours, Self-Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, School, Family MAINE
West Forks
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Charlemont
The Berkshires
VERMONTTEL - 800-553-7238 Read More

Dinosaur Footprints Reservation

Dinosaur Footprints is treasure trove of more than 130 tracks revealed in slabs of sandstone. Visitors can see hundreds of fossils not only from the four distinct two-legged dinosaurs, but also stromatolites, fish, plants and other ancient beings.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours, Guided Tours. COST - Free GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool MASSACHUSETTS
HolyokeTEL - 413-532-1631 Read More

Green Hill Park Farm

Experience a bit of the barnyard up close and personally with a visit to the Green Hill Park Farm. Enjoy the Farm’s petting zoo, where visitors can walk up to, touch, and feed a variety of farm animals.

GRADE LEVEL - Early Childhood, Elementary School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours. COST - Free GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool MASSACHUSETTS
WorcesterTEL - 508-799-1190 Read More

Harvard Art Museums

Harvard Art Museums are comprised of three separate museums — the Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, and Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

GRADE LEVEL - Middle School, High School PROGRAM TYPE - Self-Guided Tours, Guided Tours. COST - Fee, Free, Title I GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool MASSACHUSETTS
CambridgeTEL - 617-495-9400 Read More

FieldTripdirectory.com offers educational experiences for Massachusetts school groups, scout groups, homeschool groups, camp groups and families at Massachusetts Museums.

Massachusetts museums offer field trips that offer hands-on exhibits, guided tours and guided activities for early childhood through high school grades. Massachusetts has art museums, science museums, history museums, multicultural museums and children’s museums. All museums listing on fieldtripdirectory.com offers programs and tours for youth groups and families. Beside museums, you can search for other learning attractions such as Massachusetts Botanical Gardens, Planetariums, Living History Programs, STEM & STEAM, Planetariums, Farms, Zoos and Aquariums, Theaters and Concerts, Service Learning and more

Can’t go on a field trip to a museum, your students, scouts, and families can still experience these fun enriching experience by scheduling a Museum Virtual Field Trip anywhere and at anytime.

Want the fun to come to you- book a School Assembly Programs, Outreach Field Trips or Residency at your school, homeschool association or scout council. They support and enhance a school’s curriculum, offers opportunities for scout badge achievement and enriches a camp program. There are mobile museum exhibits, traveling planetariums and classroom and grade level workshops and residencies.

To help fund field trips, virtual programs and school assembly programs visit our section on Grants and Fundraising Programs.

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