Long Island
Field Trips

At Hoyt Farm Nature Preserve, enjoy its many live animals, educational displays, and even a Native American artifact collection. School groups can participate in hands-on programs.

The Islip Art Museum is the leading exhibition space for contemporary art on Long Island, and has a rolling roster of exhibits featuring work by both international and local artists.

The Lauren Kristy is a 65-foot turn-of-the-century style riverboat. Modeled after an old-time Mississippi paddle wheel boat, the 150-passenger boat will transport your school and camp groups to an earlier time.

The Long Island Children’s Museum offers 14 interactive exhibits plus live theater, art spaces and daily activities to provide hours of discovery for children of all ages.

The Long Island Environmental Interpretive Center boasts many exciting, fun, and educational programs for students, campers, and scouts. Take a nature walk through the pine barrens, explore aquatic ecosystems, and even dress up as moths and butterflies and more.

The Long Island Explorium features fun and interactive exhibits that foster an understanding of STEM concepts. Children visiting the Museum learn through play.

The Long Island Maritime Museum educates visitors on local maritime history with over 10,000 objects and five historic buildings.

A Smithsonian affiliate, the Long Island Museum has nationally-known collections that include horse-drawn vehicles, art, and historic artifacts. Explore virtual resources in At Home With LIM.

Located in the Georgian-style former Frick Estate, the Nassau County Museum is home to a permanent 19th and 20th century American and European art, as well as a variety of rotating collections, sculptures, and gardens.

Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park includes an arboretum spanning over 400 acres, as well as Coe Hall, the ornate, sprawling Gold Coast estate of insurance magnate William Robertson Coe.

The Plaza Players present highly acclaimed musicals, children’s theatre, and arts-in- education productions throughout the tri-state area.

SuffolkStudy modern art and its international context, and explore the setting in which famed artists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner created many of their artistic works.